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ALTHOUGH MATUSOW does not specifically address the point, Kennedy's experience reflected both the limitations and the strengths of liberalism in the period. The attempt at reform was genuine, but the execution was conventional and doomed to failure Kennedy's most idealistic programs, shepherded through Congress by Lyndon Johnson in...
But amid the occasional misadventures, Broyles brought a number of achievements to the magazine. Newsweek produced a special issue in February that looked at 50 years of U.S. history through the lives of five ordinary families in Springfield, Ohio, and stretched the newsmagazine concept with a 25-page special report...
EXECUTED. Robert Austin Sullivan, 36, convicted murderer; by electrocution, despite clemency pleas from seven Florida bishops and Pope John Paul II; at the state penitentiary in Starke, Fla. Sullivan was found guilty of the 1973 slaying of the night manager of a restaurant outside Miami. Although he first confessed to...
Sherry goes to Sharyar's harem and begs him to allow Doony to accompany her, as they have not been separated from birth. At a tense moment in the long night Doony asks Sherry to tell one of her wonderful stories. By morning the story is still unfinished, so the...
Two of his greatest essays were to be wrenched from the five years he spent there. A Hanging (1931) records both the execution of a Hindu man and the writer's revulsion at the event: "It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means...