Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Joseph Lash didn't tell about Eleanor and Franklin in his recent bestselling, two-volume biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, her second son Elliott was spelling out in the April issue of Ladies' Home Journal. In the first of two excerpts from his forthcoming book, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott writes that "Mother had performed her duty in marriage-five living children were testimony to that. She wanted no more, but her bland ignorance of how to ward off pregnancy left her no choice except abstinence." So, he contends, his mother...
...ornaments were the whip-lash's scar...
...Eleanor: The Years Alone, Lash...
Extracted with misplaced fidelity from Robert Marasco's unfortunate 1970 Broadway success, this lame tale about the corruption of innocence is little more than a trot for Lord of the Flies. An unpopular Latin teacher nicknamed "Old Lash" (James Mason) is certain that all the trouble is caused by his colleague Dobbs (Robert Preston), whom he describes as a "malevolence" and an "obscenity." Dobbs, however, is beloved of all the boys and Lash heartily despised as an overbearing, paranoid pedant. The bitter rivalry between the two teachers leads eventually to madness, suicide and the equivocal triumph of evil...
...London to be replaced by New York." Still the Property Party, as Vidal calls those who rule the U.S., has also produced remarkable exceptions like Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject of one of the finest pieces Vidal has ever written. He turns what is ostensibly a book review (of Joseph Lash's Eleanor and Franklin) into one of the best thumbnail biographies since Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. To Vidal, F.D.R.'s widow is the finest example of the Christian Puritan aristocrat, dedicated to improving the lives of the masses. In recalling her funeral, he concludes with...