Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash...
NONFICTION: The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, edited by Elliott Mossman ∙ Going to the Dance, Arlene Croce ∙ Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson ∙ The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson
NONFICTION: Going to the Dance, Arlene Croce ∙The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson ∙The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson ∙Sketches from Life, Lewis Mumford
...foreword, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. condemns this report. The notion that his parents "might have engaged in marital recriminations in front of staff and aides is totally inconsistent with their semi-Victorian upbringing and their personal reticences." The letters exchanged between Eleanor and Lash, he says, accurately reflect the innocent nature of their unusual friendship. Here, the reader is the jury. The old Roosevelt haters who recall her muzzy newspaper columns and his years of autocratic rule will believe the worst. But those who see in E.R. a complex, endlessly charitable woman can only answer with more charity...
...warm relationship, though Anna was aware that her mother did not always comprehend human weaknesses, and utterly failed to understand, for instance, why F.D.R., during World War II, insisted on having a 20-minute cocktail break before dinner. But there was no pomposity to this doer of what Lash, quoting George Eliot, calls "deeds of daring rectitude." Anna recalled that toward the end of her life, E.R. was offered $35,000 to make a margarine commercial for television. She translated the fee into CARE packages, decided she could save 6,000 lives, and made the commercial. Later she reported that...