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Princeton-educated and a mod dresser by Administration standards, Flanigan plays tennis, skis and swims, often with his attractive wife Brigid and their five children. At home in fashionable Spring Valley Park in northwest Washington, he is considered pleasant by some of his neighbors, and humorless, autocratic and rude by others. On the job he is thoroughly hard-nosed, very much Richard Nixon's no-nonsense subaltern...
...envious or exploitative half-lives), that the very paysage moralise becomes finally, for all but Cyril, more nearly that of hell than of heaven. Most of the elements which might arrange themselves in a really fine novel are present. But Cyril, whose commentary proves vital, is an arrogant, humorless cad, and his worst qualities conspire to weaken or even to destroy the novel's power...
...menage was apparently just fine with the cool, emotionally evasive Franklin. But why didn't Eleanor, who hated it, have the matter out with both of them? For one thing, she had no confidence in her femininity. Franklin loved gaiety, wit and late-night revels. Eleanor was serious, humorless and terrified of alcohol. As his political career progressed, her duties multiplied. She entertained thousands. What with homes in Hyde Park, Campobello, New York City and wherever Franklin was working, a menage the size of a small army had to be moved several times a year...
...taken seriously. De Vries is the most domestic of writers. Except for his masterpiece, The Blood of the Lamb, his literary charades more or less cheerfully present a more or less repetitive series of matrimonial alarums and excursions. The De Vries wife-customarily strong, indulgent, humorless but invaluable -acts as a combined anchor and honeypot for the engaging, mercurial, hopelessly lightweight De Vriesian husband, who mostly can't pun his way out of a wet paper bag but is willing to die trying...
...great many books. 3) They lack humor. Humor takes humility. A sense of humor is based on seeing and accepting human nature as stumbling, pretentious, and forever bedeviled. When I hear boys and girls call their parents 'hypocrites' (a favorite word), I know I am looking at humorless -and therefore dangerous-children...