Word: frankness
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...most of his life, until he was well into his 60s, Frank McCourt wasn't a writer; he was a teacher. But it is as a writer, the author of the wildly successful memoir Angela's Ashes, that he will be remembered. He died on July 19 in New York of meningitis. He was 78 years old. (Read TIME's 1996 piece on Angela's Ashes...
...much later, memorably describe the scene of his conception in his memoir - but he grew up in Ireland. His parents were both Irish immigrants, and they moved back there, to Limerick, in an effort to stay ahead of McCourt's father's drinking problem. They didn't succeed. Malachy, Frank's father, worked intermittently as a laborer, but he drank constantly...
...Frank Serpico, the corruption-fighting officer portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1973 movie, is the only pure whistle-blower you've seen. In my experience he was the only person who did this out of genuinely altruistic motives. (Read TIME's 1971 article about Serpico...
Palin, one-more-week-of-being Governor Sarah • description of by Mike Murphy as "the political train wreck that keeps on giving" • description of by Peggy Noonan as "the most careless sower of discord since George W. Bush" • description of by Thomas Frank as "a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping" • just plain weirdness of • mutual love of firearms of Ted Nugent and • Op-Ed piece is "written by" warning about the dangers of the Obama energy plan previously supported by • thinning hair of • tweets about bears...
...White House never told the CIA why it panicked, at least as far as I know. But I do know that the Administration was living with the collective memory of the Church Committee hearings. In the mid-1970s, a Senate committee chaired by Frank Church hammered the CIA for its attempted assassinations of foreign leaders, including Fidel Castro. During the worst of it, the CIA wondered if it would survive. It did. But it was saddled with an order prohibiting assassination, and in 1981 Ronald Reagan amended it as Executive Order 12333. In the CIA, that was the closest thing...