Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presents in elaborate and fascinating detail a complex situation between two friends, one of whom has come to tell the other that he "had stolen his forever-possible girl." Doran lets the story tell itself, relying almost entirely on dialogue which captures the private humor of a close friendship and gives remarkably clear sketches of both individuals...
...precisely hostile, he at least shares a celebrity's distrust of strangers-and distrust sometimes seeps over into contempt. Johnny and Joanne are people who do not need people. "Johnny," says McMahon, putting it mildly, "is not overly outgoing or affectionate. He doesn't give friendship easily or need it. He packs a tight suitcase." One lady author, who was a guest on the show, puts it more bluntly: "He is a cold fish...
...Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul...
...Truce: Friendship...
Fraternity Hatred. Roessler, a rightist-imperialist German intellectual who fought in World War I and afterward maintained his dedication to a reasonable Germany, fled to Switzerland in 1934, but not before cementing an anti-Nazi friendship with ten high-ranking comrades in the Wehrmacht. Sharing with them the military fraternity's hatred of Korporal Adolf Hitler, Roessler agreed to serve as an out-of-country transmitter for every bit of intelligence that the ten could sneak out of Germany in the event of war. At the same time, he promised his friends that he would not disclose their identities...