Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pace of My Young Years is allegro, the mood vivace, and the results bravisslmo. It is the first of a hoped-for series of volumes, written without the aid of a ghost writer. If Rubinstein's memory has romanticized the past and his prowess, no matter. The book spans his early life from his birth in Lodz in 1887 through the spring of 1917 when, as the author confidently puts it, "I had gained the necessary hold on my career...
Calder's Appendix B raises a different ghost, the one that gives life to another of Maugham's books that is still read, Ashenden, or: the British Agent...
...strangest accusations in the Watergate scandal is the charge that the press has been guilty of "McCarthyism." Joe's unhappy ghost was raised most insistently by Wisconsin's William Proxmire, who inherited McCarthy's Senate seat and who has privately stated that he thinks President Nixon is "up to his ears" in the Watergate mess. Said Proxmire: the secondhand press accounts of what White House Counsel John W. Dean III told federal investigators represent a "McCarthyistic destruction of the President." Vice President Spiro Agnew followed with an attack on the publication of anonymous "hearsay" as "a very...
...looks matter so much?" she wants to know. Others, though, are aphoristic and revealing. Somehow, she tells us, she could never imagine Jackie Kennedy going to the bathroom. Abandoning "relevance" to set up a prom, "we knew just enough to feel guilty, like trick-or-treaters nervously passing a ghost with a UNICEF box in his hand...
...series of cages. As he pursues his life of humanitarian crime, Chuff ponders the plight of men and animals, and very satisfactorily reflects on the loyalties and limitations of the British class system with a clear eye and an absence of rancor and cant that should delight the ghost of George Orwell...