Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ¶ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ¶ Kipling, Auden & Co., Randall Jarrell ¶ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich Lyndon, Merle Miller ¶ Nature and Culture, Barbara ¶ Novak Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook...
Miller's corral full of voices is spacious enough to accommodate Johnson's personal weaknesses. But the superficial treatment of the Bobby Baker scandal, the relationship between the Johnsons' business interests and the FCC and the Tonkin Gulf deception lets L.B.J. off the hook. Miller also fails to reflect strongly enough the extent of the damage caused by Johnson's Viet Nam policy. Eulogistic gloss tends to soften some of the harder truths. Perhaps this is the nature of oral biography. At one point the author notes that "memory is a gentleman." True. But when memory...
...lyric breaks into a prosaic, namby-pamby identification of Browne himself as a hold-out too, wanting to fly. But just as the cyclamates reach the carcinogenic threshold, and Browne declares for the first time in a song, "I love you...," he lets himself and the listener off the hook, waving his true Satyric colors: "Well just look at yourself--what else wouldI...
Ramos knew he had it when he was 13. He only weighed 120 Ibs. and stood 5 ft. 6 in. tall, but he knocked out a 22-year-old with his potent left hook. By the time he was 14, he had won 24 fights, 18 of them knockouts, in matches arranged by the various gyms where he worked out. Ramos also maintained a 79 average at Lehman High School and somehow managed to win five letters in other sports: track, cross-country, swimming, basketball and football. He has a lot to thank his mother and father...
NONFICTION: A.E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet, Richard Perceval Graves ∙ China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ∙ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich ∙ Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh