Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pulitzer prize with Mr. Lincoln's Army and Glory Road. Using Lewis' abundant notes, Catton carried on. In Grant Moves South (1960), he brought Grant from his unpromising early career up to his tenacious triumph at Vicksburg. Now, in Grant Takes Command, he follows the taciturn-little general to his day of final victory at Appomattox...
...game is respectability and status. The Godfather, which advances and contracts suggest should earn its author at least $500,000 in royalties, paperback and film rights, could prove a subtle opening move in getting the Mafia into the same league as the House of Lords and the German General Staff...
...years and nine months starting just after President Kennedy's assassination. He was charged with providing the new President with a flow of ideas; among those he helped shape was the Johnsonian conception of the Great Society. He also served, more and more uneasily, as a general liaison man, trying to improve relations between the brilliant but unread Texan President and the intellectual community. "Congratulations and condolences," an academic friend quipped when Goldman first went to Washington. "Nobody has had a better job since the N.A.A.C.P. sent a man to Mississippi...
...possible to sympathize with this man who is by his own admission contemptible. That is the best measure of Blocker's accomplishment. In the end, when he, Saul, and Saul's general leave the witch, it is only Blocker's Minister who carries the burden of the vision of imminent doom she has shown them...
...people were extremely up-tight and antagonistic about the whole thing, and wanted the offensive parties immediately removed from their clean, protected midst. I reacted with a chuckle at first, smiling and commenting to my roommate about the uniqueness of the situation--which seemed to be the general topic of conversion in the room. But I was gradually moved by curiosity to listen to what these naked people had to say, and to interact with them...