Word: mawkishness
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Because of his unlimited admiration for the widowed First Lady, Manchester was also supposed to have created a mawkish, Camille-like Jackie Kennedy. Yet, she is presented fairly objectively in this version of the book-overcome by her loss, but not immersed in bathos. From the coffin she took a lock of Kennedy's hair, writes Manchester, and as she left the East Room she was "swaying visibly." She righted herself and, "beyond consolation, wrenched by a torsion of pain," she managed to retain "the sense of purpose which had kept her going for two days...
...question that arises is whether Goldberg duped himself. Contrary to the mawkish speech President Johnson delivered when he announced Goldberg's appointment, indications are that the Ambassador has not joined the White House inner council on Vietnam. Goldberg, for all his praise of Secretary--General U Thant--and he probably means it--has been unable to make Johnson's policy comprehensible to Thant, or Thant's view-point comprehensible to Johnson...
Exhaustive Detail. Long the subject of speculation across the U.S., the 1,200-page manuscript of the book has proved to be something of a shock to just about everyone. Re-creating the events on and after the day of the assassination in exhaustive detail and in sometimes mawkish language, it describes Jackie Kennedy's every thought and emotion after her husband's death with such fidelity that the Kennedys-who have not read it but are familiar with its contents-feel that it contains things far too personal to print. "That's all she has left...
...Disney perhaps would have been incapable of tackling such subjects without diminishing in some measure-as he did with Mary Poppins-their hard bite of inner reality. He stressed the sameness of the two worlds, ignored or abolished the differences, reconciled the generations. If at times the results were mawkish, Disney scarcely gave it a thought. He saw his own role as the fantasist animating the warm dreams that men and children refuse...
Bids for Sympathy. Johnson's concern with his image led, nonetheless, to a mawkish display of official grief over the death of Him, the family beagle that was run over last week by a limousine in the White House driveway. Reporters were solemnly informed of daughter Lynda Bird's reaction (she burst tearfully in on a meeting with Congressmen to tell her father), of Lady Bird's reaction ("It makes you feel you have been hit in the stomach with a hard rock"), of Lyndon's reaction ("We are having a sad time at the White...