Word: kinship
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Though the Georgetown cocktail circuit buzzes almost weekly with rumors that the Secretary of State is on his way out, Lyndon Johnson has always deeply respected the bland, imperturbable Rusk, feels a personal kinship with him because of his Georgian drawl and tenant-farm origins. "He is No. 1 in the Cabinet," said Johnson, when Rusk came under attack last summer in Arthur M. Schlesinger's history of the Kennedy Administration, "and he is No. 1 with...
...more than a year, the U.S. has allowed the situation to drift, on the theory that Europe was basically sound and not much was needed to be done. Now Washington is once again turning its attention to Europe and to the ties-uniquely close but uniquely complex-of kinship, common ideals and hard self-interest that bind the Old World...
Britons were honoring Kennedy for more than mere kinship. Runnymede, the "birthplace of constitutional government," is where King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215. Harold Wilson eulogized Kennedy for his struggle on behalf of "human dignity and equality." Said Jackie, in a message of thanks: "My husband had the greatest affection for the British people and what you represent around the world. One day my children will realize what it means to have their father honored at Runnymede...
...black man from his door." But the dog is something of a misfit himself: he refuses to bark at strangers, ignores the bitch brought around for mating purposes. He is indeed a great, slobbering, sheepish failure "always conscious of wrongdoing." Hate turns to sympathy, as Gradwell recognizes his kinship with this other outsider: "He broke off a piece of bread and threw it, saying in his own language to the dog, 'Here!' " Miss Gordimer's detachment competes with her lapidarian skill. Her stories glow, but with the gem fire that gives no warmth and sheds only reflected...
...himself. Author Vonnegut casts Rosewater as a misbegotten saint in a world that puts saints to the stake. Beyond that point lurks another: that goodness ought to have its head examined for trying to coexist with evil. In this book, his sixth, Vonnegut clearly establishes his kinship to the late Nathanael West, and Eliot Rosewater could easily pass as the reincarnation of Miss Lonelyhearts. But Vonnegut is both riper and less mature than West-and less angry. Able to observe detachedly above the world's fray, he has not enlisted in the cause of either good or evil...