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...Schlesinger can be self-important (the dinners on Martha's Vineyard with movie stars, the lunches at Manhattan's Mortimer's restaurant with the society crowd). He indulges the old New Deal intellectual's habit of bashing business and businessmen in an almost recreational way. (At one point he blithely equates capitalism with sexism and racism.) But even his smugness has a certain hilarious pungency. He records the time in London toward the end of the war when a V-1 bomb fell close by; everyone else in his office fell to the floor, but as a coworker's journal...
...removed Kennedy cousin. Gore Vidal, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Richard Goodwin, Jackie's ultracompetitive sister Lee Radziwill Ross and several of Jackie's ex-lovers comment on, among other things, her romantic issues with father figures, her intense, loving relationship with Bobby Kennedy, and her father "Black Jack" Bouvier's habit of sharing play-by-play analysis of his sex life with his daughters, which Jackie apparently thought was "the most wonderful thing." Still wondering where those father-figure issues came from...
...something he never intended to do. Lives of Moral Leadership was intended to inspire, to provoke discussion and self-examination more than anything else. And on that count, it succeeds in a subtle but undeniable way-not by raising an intellectual problem, but by encouraging that rare habit of introspection...
Robb says much of his Senate career has been conducted behind the scenes--the Intelligence Committee, one of four on which he sits, does much of its work in private. His campaign team is frustrated by Allen's in-your-face approach and his habit of harping on the 50[cents]-per-gal. gas-tax hike Robb proposed in 1993. They're trying desperately to focus on Robb's strengths, such as his support for the Balanced Budget Act in the Senate and his success as Governor in raising teachers' salaries. As strategist David Doak...
...consider Frankie Lymon, a major child star in the 1950s with such hits as "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" His numerous failed marriages and drug habit (a habit which ultimately led to his early death at the age of 25) were tragic enough to be the subject of a movie (1998's mawkish Why Do Fools Fall in Love...