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...book, tentatively titled "Lyndon Johnson: The Tyranny of Benevolence," presents Johnson as a man torn between humanitarian instincts inherited from his mother and a rigid concept of manhood taught by his father. This personality conflict, Kearns writes, can help explain the guns-and-butter policies of Johnson's presidency...
...remember Mrs. King. Like most black women, Mrs. King had her strength tested early and often during the tense and turbulent days of the civil rights movement. As the wife of a fearless husband, living in an era when black men were not to show signs of manhood--an admonition that Rev. King Sr. ignored--Mrs. King was ever mindful of the most dreaded possibilities relating to her husband's safety. Time and time again I would watch her stand by his side as he spoke out against racial intolerance and insults to the human spirit...
...read too many novels like Madame Bovary. He is condemned to work out the hassles of his marriage in a long, unfinished and unfinishable novel. His wife Maureen--whose perfumed adoration and melodramatic rages recall Charlotte Haze, Lolita's mother--is the instrument which most threatens his manhood, most demands defense through the only means he knows--writing. Maureen claims that she could be Tarnopol's Muse, if only he'd let her. The problem is exactly that she is his Muse, irresistibly, inescapably. She is what his literary psychoanalysis is all about...
...moral anguish" he keeps reading about. The depths of tragedy-that, Tarnopol thinks, is what an artist and a man must plumb. He yearns romantically to be a golden loser as well as a golden winner. Furthermore, he has a notion that one must prove one's manhood, not on the battlefields of war (like old-style machismo novelists) but in the combat zones of love. Nor is he fantasizing sexual conquest. For, paradoxically, what woman represents to Tarnopol is "the testing ground, not for potency, but virtue." (Like "keeping his word and doing his duty," he took...
According to aides, he reasoned that the move would end the spiraling demands of the committee?as well as those of Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski?for more tapes. Explained one presidential adviser: "We felt a growing concern that it was becoming a test of manhood between the two branches. We decided this might be a way to defuse that feeling." In addition, aides reported, the President saw disclosure as a way of repairing his damaged credibility. Said St. Clair: "People were getting more and more imbued