Word: ike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leukemia and roughly half a year to live. Shortly after this bad news, Dwyer's house is burglarized. He is not especially surprised, given his courtroom exposures to petty crooks and his knowledge of what goes on in his hometown. But Adam's wife Clara and teenage son Ike have received a vivid impression of how scary the world can be. Worse is to follow, not only for the Dwyers but for everyone else who figures prominently in Geoffrey Wolff's fourth novel. Providence is a tangled tale, ensnarling a number of characters, including a cop and some robbers...
...Dewey's young prosecutors in New York before World War II, counsel for Senate postwar investigations of Truman-era scandals. He was the young G.O.P. lawyer who won seating of Eisenhower's contested convention delegates in 1952, thereby assuring Ike the nomination. Rogers helped Nixon through the Checkers crisis, counseled the shaken Vice President when Ike had his heart attack in 1955. Rogers was Attorney General for Ike and Secretary of State for Nixon. His public career rivals almost any other living person's, but he never sought acclaim...
Musicals used to trade in innocence. Fred Astaire could get a thrill just from being caught in the rain with Ginger Rogers. Gene Kelly shouted, "Gotta dance!" as if it were a battle cry or a mating call. But those carefree days seem as distant as Ike and Mamie; musicals have more serious topics--Argentine dictators, pointillist painters--weighing on their souls. Musicals used to be called, oh, High Spirits. Now London's hot song-and-dance show is Les Miserables, which locals translate as The Glums. That is precisely the disease afflicting the modern musical. Artistic ambition...
...Everlys were born in Kentucky, where Father Ike was, in the words of his younger son, "a truly unrecognized genius. He taught us everything we know, how to play and how to sing." (One of the greatest of all Everly records is Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, a 1958 album of country songs that shows the brothers may have strayed from tradition but always stayed close to their roots.) Phil and Don were both still in their teens when they hit big in 1957 with Bye Bye Love, and the hot singles and concert tours that followed for the next...
...public record does not show Ike's having SOBed anyone, but he did. Asked to sign a special bill granting $125,000 to a bombsight inventor who had been denied any wartime compensation owing to national security strictures, Ike exploded, recalling his overworked, ill-paid years under the lash of "Black Jack" Pershing and General Douglas MacArthur. As Ike signed the bill, he SOBed the whole idea with an original but unprintable twist or two. His loyal aides never leaked it until...