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Born. To Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 54, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for historical writing (The Age of Jackson in 1946, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1966), once an aide to Kennedy and now an adviser to the McGovern campaign, and Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger, 36: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
...team, with lacome coach Emmet Creed looking over them from his watchtower, works to master a pattern of behavior in which words break down into animal sounds while separate actions are ordered into a working whole. Their game is not mock warfare. Though the players find a timeless ecstasy under the lights on Saturday nights, their satisfaction is all too brief, all too fleeting. As one observer complains. "I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we have the real thing...
...when he was 56, James sat for a portrait by his young cousin Ellen Emmet. The painting, which James varnished himself and hung in his dining room, showed an Old Master, solemn if not portentous, massively trussed in a beige waistcoat and dark suit with a heavy-knotted, speckled cravat. A "smooth and anxious clerical gentleman" was the way James summed up his own likeness. But hidden underneath, on a separate canvas, was an unfinished portrait of quite a different man: Henry James as a country squire out of Fielding-ruddy face, eyes full of animal energy...
...Married. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 53, Pulitzer-prizewinning historian (in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House), intellectual fixture of the New Frontier and now a Professor at the City University of New York; and Alexandra Emmet Allan, 35, daughter of the late Lily Gushing, noted painter; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...puritan America, and was responsible to the puritans-at first, the black, but now, the white. Their press had made him. Their financial support had underwritten his activities. Their power protected him from acts of Gothic violence like those that had cancelled the lives of Emmet Till, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, and the four girls in the bombed church at Birmingham. Made myopic by his ego and his mendacious assumptions about the nature of America, King had not yet perceived the motivation that had caused this support to be accorded him, nor the conditions under which it was given. Instead...