Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your June 8 account of [House Minority Leader] Charles Halleck's efforts in behalf of "us taxpayers" leads me to believe that he would make a fine majority leader...
Most often the matter of color is not the core of a story. A young white boy cruelly squelches a not-very-bright Negro who tries bumblingly to make a pigeon coop for him; white passers-by discuss irritably what to do with a helplessly drunk white man, unload the problem on two gentle and respectful native policemen. Such cruelty and callousness exist independent of color, but the failings of Jacobson's whites show with merciless clarity against a black background. In the book's best story, a young white South African who has migrated to London anticipates...
...offerings-the offerings of art-the book also contains more genuine insights into art than a shelf of criticism. Of the Sistine Chapel: "Poor Michelangelo-to have been put to so undignified and superhuman a task! It was obvious that they had overestimated his genius in expecting him to make up by painting alone for the Sistine's total lack of architecture...
...central figure, a bombastic newspaper publisher who is given to raging soliloquies, is cruelly beset in his old age by two ungrateful daughters, who try to seize the paper in a proxy fight. Only his third daughter remains steadfast. Does the reader see the Shakespearean parallel? To make sure, Busch nudges him with the "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" line from King Lear...
Author Busch blows lengthily but achieves only a slight turbulence. Anchylus Saxe, his publisher, is a routinely drawn old thunderer. His women, drunk or sober, are the four-martini kind-it would take that many snorts at a cocktail party to make them endurable. But for old newspaper hands who happen on the book, there is at least one reward-the characterization of a press lord so noble that he allows his own gossip columnist to malign a much-loved member of his family, because, by God, the facts are right...