Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Family resounds too often with the kind of noise that substitutes for ideas and action. It is laden with superlatives: "the most comfortable house I have ever been in in my life," "the most uncomfortable interval of my life," "the most grown-up boy of around my age I had ever met"-and with synthetic velocity: "Suddenly, another letter came," "Suddenly I knew." Loyal readers will suddenly feel that this novel is not O'Connor at his best...
Lowell Inn, Stillwater, Minn. Owner Mrs. Nelle Palmer considers her antique-laden inn "the Mount Vernon of the West." Diners know that the trout are fresh because they pick them from a pool...
...calm. On one wall hangs William Walton's impressionistic portrait of J.F.K., State of the Union. On another is an oil portrait entitled Before His Last Mission, showing Joe Jr., eldest of the Kennedy children, in flying togs just before his death in 1944, when an explosives-laden plane in which he was flying blew up over the English Channel. Opposite Bobby's desk, in stark contrast to the collection of his children's watercolors, are memorabilia of J.F.K.-whom he almost always calls "the President" or "President Kennedy," rarely "my brother" and never "Jack." There...
Capable of Honor is the third book in a tetralogy that Drury launched with his successful, widely read Advise and Consent. It lacks the spellbinding novelty of that first book. It is laden with passages that are even more clumsy and prolix than those in A Shade of Difference, the second in the series. But Drury succeeds again simply by cramming his book with intricately spun accounts of domestic skulduggery, international chicanery, congressional conniving, and White House squeeze plays-all of which spell bestsellerdom. What's more, old Senate Reporter Drury (who used to work for the New York...
...Line. Hoving was one of Lindsay's first appointments when the new mayor took over the crisis-laden city and announced that he would make over New York into "Fun City." A mixture of madcap aristocrat, merry medievalist and serious scholar, Hoving gave up his job as curator at the Metropolitan Museum's Rockefeller-endowed Cloisters, even though it may have put him out of the line of succession for the post of director...