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...surface, and he had an excess of surface, Hugh Morrow would seem the epitome of a family man; he was one of eight children and came to be father and stepfather to ten of his own. He was genial, articulate, gregarious, a spokesman for Nelson Rockefeller, intimate of politicians and journalists across the country. But at home he often seemed a figure invested with glamour, forbearance and remoteness. There, "injury and anger gusted inarticulately through the house. The spirit bore a bruise, a grievance: the bruise was mysterious . . . We could not explain it, we could not assuage...
...large brood, Hugh adopted a tone of remote and incomprehensible irony. His children came to believe that somehow they seemed to have "done him a concealed injury, to have stolen something from him, something they may have taken without knowing the wound they were inflicting...
...horizon without touching: in the Roman Catholic Church, which he abandons and rejoins; in the attitudes of his doctors after Lance, a heavy smoker, suffers a heart attack at 36; in the jousting of police and demonstrators. The relationship that causes the greatest internal rift is the one between Hugh Morrow and Nelson Rockefeller. "No one does the words better than Hughie," Henry Kissinger remarks, as if "he were giving an endorsement to the pastry chef." Those words, Morrow acrimoniously notes, are what Rockefeller demands for 21 years, along with the deference of a talented man writing below his worth...
...motivation is a concern for the character of the area," said Hugh Russell, an architect and member of the zoning body. "We were concerned that Harvard Square was changing to be like other parts of the country," he added...
...cloud Wall Street's prospects. Leading the list are the twin menaces, huge budget and trade deficits. The trade gap weakens the U.S. economy by diverting American dollars abroad, and the enormous borrowing needed to finance the budget shortfall threatens to push interest rates higher and stunt growth. Says Hugh Johnson, a portfolio strategist for First Albany, a securities brokerage firm: "People went to sleep about the deficit, but they will probably wake up to it this year." Johnson is also skeptical of the current wave of bullish sentiment: "When the prevailing view is one of near unanimous optimism, that...