Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virginia who is shadowed by past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, v. an exuberant former Vice President who is esteemed as an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. Yet the heavy betting favorite is shrewd Robert C. Byrd, 58, and not Minnesota's liberal crusader, 65-year-old Hubert Humphrey...
...Hubert Anvil, 10, is the best boy soprano in Christendom. But he will be neither a boy nor a soprano much longer-unless an alteration is performed on his anatomy. Church officials, including the Pope, decide that they and Hubert have no choice; such a talent must be preserved for the greater veneration and glory of God. Hubert, a devout and obedient lad, would nonetheless like to know what he will be missing from the manhood that is not to be his. "I know it's glorious to have God's favor," says the potential castrato...
Anyone can play this game, but to play it entertainingly requires Amis' sure historical anchor and free-floating imagination. He sets young Hubert's struggle to stay unmutilated against a background of intriguing conjectures and sly jokes. Europe is ruled directly from the Vatican (Pope John XXIV is a stout-swilling Englishman given to reminding his visitors that "we are the Holy Father"). Plague and cholera still ravage its citizens because ecclesiastical authorities have hamstrung medicine and banned science altogether. Jean-Paul Sartre is a French Jesuit. Children read books like St. Lemuel's Travels...
...horses and humanity." Because secular art has never been officially sanctioned, Western masters from Blake to De Kooning have left a massive catalogue of inspired religious works. Yet Amis inserts frequent reminders that the price of such beauty and serenity is totalitarianism. A rebellious priest who tries to keep Hubert from the surgeon's knife is brutally murdered...
Actually, the Woodstein of Koreagate is no stranger to Page One. Last year Cheshire won a wall full of journalism awards for her disclosures that Pat Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and lesser public figures had kept millions of dollars' worth of gifts from foreign governments, in violation of a 1966 statute. A few years earlier, Cheshire investigated the $1 million worth of antiques donated by wealthy Americans to help Jacqueline Kennedy refurbish the White House: to Jackie's embarrassment, a seven-article series listed the age, origin, donor and occasionally dubious value of each piece. That prying brought...