Word: evelyne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRESIDENCY Memories of Uncle Lyndon Working from a lode of salvaged notes and firsthand memoranda, Evelyn Lincoln assembled a 1965 memoir, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, that gave readers a faithful slavey's-eye view of the boss she loved and served as personal secretary. Her second installment, Kennedy & Johnson, about to be published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, wastes little love on J.F.K.'s succes sor. Her book's opening description of L.B.J., in Florida at their first meeting after the 1960 election, speaks of him as "Heavy. Heavy footsteps. Heavy body. Heavy, slow-moving...
Waifs & Strays. This is fundamentally the story of all prodigals, and through it the book attempts to get to the heart of America as a country of wanderers -or as Evelyn Waugh put it, "a nation of waifs and strays...
Peter D. L. Stansky, assistant professor of History and the course instructor, evidently takes intellectual change seriously. The last item on the reading list, which includes Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and E.M. Forster, is "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." And it is required...
...best written and funniest piece in the issue, aside from the Poonies' Evelyn Wood ad on the inside back cover, is Sidney P. Lee's parody of a spy story. Lee brings laughs because he is unpredictably unLampoon, and therefore not above a well-placed "Horse-piss...
...Evelyn Wood first observed dynamic reading 18 years ago when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6000 words a minute. Mrs. Wood's curiosity caused her to look for other exceptional readers, and over the next few years she found 50 people who could read faster than 1500 words per minute with fine comprehension, outstanding recall and great reading satisfaction...