Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also unclear exactly how the psychological stuff fits in to Johnson's later career, which I gather it's supposed to do. There's a longish section on Johnson's first love affair that is no doubt new information, but leads nowhere and connects to nothing. At times, later on, Kearns tries very hard to fit her early findings into Johnson's adult life--his policies showing, a desire for love, and so on--but by then the connections seem forced and unimportant...
...gather beneath the portrait of Teddy Roosevelt on a rampant steed do not come in red, white and blue plastic boaters or snapping galluses that say, THERE IS A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE. They deny direct relationship with the crass election business. But they are everything to Ford's future...
...show business career. Franken and Davis first began writing together at Blake, a Minnesota country-day prep school, not for comedy skits or plays, but for morning chapel announcements. Although they didn't "hang out around the school theater," Franken said, they wrote together whenever they could gather up enough energy to put on a show. When Franken graduated from high school in 1969, he had Physics in mind for a concentration--"I was good at math and all that stuff"--but show business dreams were far from forgotten...
...sexual imagery, she stops and apologizes for having brought up the subject. An erotic imagination might, be all right for Erica's following, she suggests, but not for her own gentle reader. Similarly, after observing that the four female titans of the modern novel (Willa Gather, Colette, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein) were all somewhat "alarming" women fascinated by the permutations of sexual identity, Moers furiously backpedals. She dismisses as insignificant, for example, the fact that Gather frequently chose male narrators for her novels...
...festive one-for-all atmosphere heightened in intensity; in a few hours the only remnant of two months work would be a stack of slides the producer arranges in a small, plastic carousel. "AAAaaah, Ooooh, la-la-la-la-la-ne-ne-ne-t-t-t-;" gregarious gobs gather in garious groups." The cast hopped and stomped, up and down, practicing diction and singing scales, up and down. The man who paced was Kenneth LaZebnik, director-cum-ringmaster and coach now warming (or frenzying) up his actors in the few minutes before curtain...