Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman...
...Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman...
...Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman...
Catching On. Roth is an enthusiastic mimic. "He takes all the parts in every story and really makes you see the people. He is the best storyteller I know," says Novelist Brian Moore. Lately he has become more wary. "I would call him a manic repressive," says Writer Albert Goldman, an old friend. "He knows he could be rocketed too high-the new hero who is all brains and sex. Actually, he is probably happiest working in monastic solitude." In recent years he has lived in Manhattan, a dashing, dark-featured bachelor with a beautiful blonde at his side...
...everyone was quite so generous. Former LBJ aide Eric Goldman felt the speech underscored Johnson's fundamental failure, which was to understand the modern city and the people--"the corporation executives from Scarsdale"--who live in it. Arthur Schlesinger didn't like the speech because it included no "analysis" of how the war had been bad for the Great Society programs, and more generally because the President did not convey enough of a sense of the mess that he was leaving the country...