Word: meacham
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...Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (Random House; 490 pages), Jon Meacham, the No. 2 editor at Newsweek, has written a handsomely Plutarchan study that weaves together the lives, characters and fates of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the years of their wartime partnership. Most of the anecdotes have been told a thousand times, but Meacham manages to align the two giants in a way that makes the stories seem fresh, the two men, seen so close together, casting interesting lights upon each other...
Roosevelt and Churchill were born eight years apart (Churchill being the elder). As Meacham writes, "They loved tobacco, strong drink, history, the sea, battleships, hymns, pageantry, patriotic poetry, high office, and hearing themselves talk. 'Being with them was like sitting between two lions roaring at the same time,' said [Churchill's daughter] Mary Soames." Each had a powerful sense of the stagecraft of statesmanship. Each was physically brave, profoundly ambitious, a consummate actor and a superb politician. Each was the son of a rich American mother. (Roosevelt, infinitely doted upon, had a happy childhood; Churchill was famously neglected...
...examine and determine the conservation status of every film in our collection. We’ll have an overview of all the films we own, what amount of danger they are in and what amount of preservation work still needs to be done,” archive manager Brian Meacham said...
...Chris—set up shop in a little office in nearby Davis Square. They had a modest income but an extravagant plan. Leaving consulting job offers and generous grants and fellowships behind them, they set forth to the corner of Massachusetts and Meacham Aves to consummate their cyberspace vision. That vision was known as Pimpin’ Cupid. It was a simple yet profound concept: an online dating service that pairs up potential soul mates via e-mail. Sam A. Yagan ’99 muses “It was a fun idea, we were all friends...