Word: lovingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. With loving care, the author constructs a fascinating mosaic of minutiae about one of the most brilliant and complex figures in British history, Victoria's favorite Victorian, Benjamin Disraeli.
In commenting upon "Black Power," however, Rustin felt that the institutions of the Negro community should be involved in any organizing effort, that the middle classes should be concentrated upon, and that it should be fun. "You've got to have some fun, because we are a fun-loving people...
FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A long, loving search-both forward and backward-for the essence of parenthood; a tribute to that most neglected figure in American fiction -the Jewish father.
Then why is the sum total of Fathers considerably less biting than its component parts promise? First, Gold's immigrant-in-America story has been overworked in the past; it is almost a tedious commonplace, for example, that yet another nice Jewish girl breaks tradition and marries a goy...
Blake peels the petals off this flowery picture with loving precision. Disraeli was born in 1804, in no sense underprivileged. His father Isaac was a well-known, successful anthologist with a pleasant country house and an entree into at least the second rank of English society. Dizzy could have gone...