Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alter is best at creating an atmosphere for the seemingly epiphanal moments in the book. The only difficulty is that these moments, when they finally occur, do not always fulfill the promise of their set-ups. For example, a fat man determines to lose a lot of weight, once and for all, and let his slothful habits fall by the wayside. The description of his decision and the absurd steps he takes are fine, but after he gets all cranked up, he simply and predictably caves in again. These trivial moments of neo-existential despair wear kind of thin. Alter...
Kennedy. The magic name. Thirty four years since the first of the brothers, Joe Jr., died when his plane exploded over England. Fifteen years since John was shot in Dallas. Ten years since Bobby was shot in Los Angeles. A lot of idealism has washed away since then; a lot of liberals have perceived a rising of the dark. And now Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., sometime teacher, sometime reviewer, sometime adviser, sometime historian, but always consummate storyteller, has come out with a massive remembrance of Bobby: Robert Kennedy and His Times. And the times, for Schlesinger, rise and fall very...
Carter used a lot of his own energy in an attempt to keep the energy of his country flowing. In so doing he will enter the history books as having achieved one of two things: either the termination of a 30-year-old war or the destruction of a 30-year-old nation...
...much money into the race as "it takes to win." He is urging a state constitutional limit on taxes and spending. "The state government is the biggest business in Florida," he tells crowds. "And that's where my record has been. I'm going to use a lot of businesspeople to help solve some of our problems." His Democratic opponent, State Senator Robert Graham, wants to put a two-year freeze on all property taxes and establish a tax-reform commission. He claims to know the value of a buck, since he worked at 100 different jobs?from plumber...
...same time, he reminds voters that the Federal Government has the responsibility to provide for basic human needs, such as health, education and employment. He also makes frequent reference to the time he was a star on the New York Knicks basketball team. "You know, I spent a lot of years running around in short pants in drafty arenas. And I think we shared moments of triumph, moments of sadness, moments of intense pressure...