Word: excerpting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifties," recalls Kay Summersby Morgan in a forthcoming book. Past Forgetting-My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Summersby, who served as Ike's chauffeur, confidante and companion during much of World War II, wrote the book shortly before she died last year of cancer. An excerpt from her memoir, which appears in the December Ladies ' Home Journal, tells about off-duty hours spent together, mutual professions of love and, despite Ike's marriage to Mamie, plans for children. "We would sit on the sofa in the living room, listen to records, have a couple of drinks...
...real pitfall of this issue is its prose, such as this excerpt from the passage on Bessie Smith...
Possibly Hughes should have spent less time accumulating his billions and more time learning to spell. He added, in an excerpt of a memo TIME printed, a final e to the words "negro" and "potato." Money can't buy everything...
...magazine's title Genesis "sounded kind of religious," recalled Anthony Battiato, executive vice president of the David McKay publishing company. So McKay innocently accepted the monthly's bid to print an excerpt from a book, The Accountability of Power, by Senator Walter Mondale, the son of a Methodist minister. Genesis, alas, is a gamy skin mag, and Mondale's view on the presidency appeared in its May issue along with essays like "69 Far-Out Ways to Turn On a Woman" and the "Erotic Diary of a Nympho Cheerleader." Battiato conceded that "we goofed," but there...
...excerpt reads like a political memoir, with all the characteristic flaws of that genre: first-person approach, great emphasis on the writer's own role, slightly wooden style, exaggeration of the bits of history the writer happens to know about first-hand. And even if a little positive revisionism on Johnson-particularly about his role in civil rights--might be a good thing, knowing that his Vietnam policy stemmed from his relationship with his mother seems, in the end, only to trivialize what happened there...