Word: kennedyana
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Bobby's every activity is prominently and exhaustively chronicled-from a breathtaking ride down 100 turbulent miles of Idaho's Salmon River to an out-of-breath conquest of Canada's 14,000 ft. Mount Kennedy. Ever voracious for Kennedyana, reporters besiege him with requests for interviews, including at least five or six each week from foreign correspondents whose readers from Bangkok to Bonn, much like their American counterparts, have an insatiable appetite for his latest derring...
...have just pushed aside, I confess with mounting distaste, a pile of Kennedyana on which I had been browsing, Graveyard, or memorial, prose is among the least edifying and least pleasing forms of human composition. There is a prevailing flavor of syrupy insincerity, an affectation of wholehearted truthfulness, amounting to the worst kind of deception, which sickens as it surfeits...
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...hold that many of the tributes to J.F.K. are fitting. One of his pet projects, the Peace Corps, for example, could be rightly rechristened the Kennedy Corps. The Kennedy Memorial Library fund in Boston is also a fair gesture. However, Kennedyana, the Kennedy International Airport, Cape Kennedy, etc., are all exceeding the bounds of respect and entering the absurd...
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