Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast to the total U.S. contingent of nearly 400 news personnel, the Soviets sent just 20. And while an avalanche of advance stories in U.S. media built up hopes for a breakthrough, Moscow's Pravda noted the start of the talks in a terse, dry item on page 4. The agreement, however, became major Soviet news. Pravda even carried a rare photo, of Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
Willard Sterne Randall, a former investigative reporter who was directed to the Franklin imbroglio by Historian Catherine Drinker Bowen, has done a brilliant reconstruction from archival material widely scattered in England, France and the U.S. Although his research was thorough enough to produce a 700-odd item bibliography, Randall's greatest skill is portraiture. In A Little Revenge, both Franklins are vital, believable figures: Benjamin, "puffy and smooth from gout, his body overweight and rounded into the peculiar barrel shape of the once-powerful swimmer too long out of the . water"; William, "a smoother, thinner, sharper replica of his father...
...spangly, fairy-tale part of the First Lady's role may reach its apotheosis in the State Dining Room. Yet even state dinners are, to Nancy Reagan, an agglomeration of hundreds of prosaic checklist items. She approves and tastes beforehand virtually every item on every menu. During the first term, she spent roughly 450 hours planning 30-odd state dinners. She presided at nearly as many other official dinners, as well as an additional 250 official White House functions, the picture-perfect but surely enervating flurry of luncheons, teas, receptions. Such occasions require a deep well of small talk...
April 12, 1985--The Harvard Crimson runs a half page retraction of a recent news item...
...major item in the current wave of interest is the finely wrought new biography by Michael Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Houghton Mifflin; 690 pages; $24.95). A professor of creative writing at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, Mott, 54, succeeded the late John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), the original biographer named by Merton's literary executors. The author provides some fresh details about the 30 years that Merton treated in Seven Storey Mountain, but the book's most fascinating contribution involves the second half of Merton's life. The executors gave Mott...