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...Master of the Senate (Knopf), the third volume of Robert Caro's massive biography of Johnson, splendidly reassembles the U.S. Senate of those Eisenhower years, the arena of L.B.J.'s rapid rise to national power, from freshman Senator in 1949 to the youngest Senate Democratic leader ever, in four short years. Caro, whose great gifts are indefatigable legwork and a sense of historical drama and character, has a fine protagonist for his life's work. His Johnson, a man of Manichaean contraries, is now familiar--by turns Caligula and Lincoln, a narcissistic monster capable of immense personal cruelty and breathtaking...
Caro seems energized by his ambivalence toward L.B.J. Sheer ambition drove the Johnsonian dialectic portrayed in Master. First, Johnson veered to the right and allied himself with conservative Southerners when he arrived at the Senate in 1949. Some years later, he emerged as the hero of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. L.B.J. saw that he could never be elected President if he was perceived as merely a Southerner; he also saw that the civil rights bill was just and necessary...
DARTH VADER In Episode I, Qui-Gon Jinn sees potential in 9-year-old Anakin Skywalker. By II, the teenage Jedi-in-training has begun to rebel against his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi...
Luckily, Cantwell says, the Leverett House Master let them hide the guns under a chair...
Since Nightfall had been born in Cabot House, it was only fitting that the solution should come from there too, in the form of Cabot House Master Jim Ware. Ware generously agreed to put up the money for a Sony VX-2000 Digital Camcorder, which is at the low end of the professional video spectrum. Newkirk himself paid for the computer and editing equipment. And Lawler put up the money for the “Angel Walk” shoot. Out of these acts of charity (and many others), Nightfall was born...