Word: memoirize
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...MOTHER'S KEEPER by B.D. Hyman Morrow; 347 pages; $17.95 Scandal began with the first motion picture, but the modern sharper-than-a-serpent's-tooth era can be traced to 1978 and the appearance of Mommie Dearest, the harsh memoir of Joan Crawford. My Mother's Keeper, by B.D. Hyman, is even more acrimonious. Joan Crawford was dead a year when the revenge was taken. Bette Davis is still alive and ticking. B. (for Barbara) D. (for Davis) Hyman declares that the front door is always open to her estranged mother. But only a masochist would enter after...
...years or so, until the Cultural Revolution started, I was one of the principal leaders in China, and I think I should be held responsible for the mistakes during those years. No one is perfect in the world. So that's why I never want to write a memoir or an autobiography. Particularly in recent years, I haven't done much [laughter...
...Panama Canal treaties in the 1970s, as Jimmy Carter's special Middle East envoy, and as chairman of countless public and private bodies, from the National Urban Coalition to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Despite his years in high places, Linowitz remains a remarkably modest man. This memoir contains few claims of credit for policy coups and no attempts at self-justification or revenge. The only enemy in sight is a little-known Pentagon official who opposed the canal treaties, and who is nonetheless described as "charming, capable, and full of goodwill...
...rare attributes raise The Making of a Public Man beyond the category of benign memoir. One is Linowitz's talent for spare, telling portraits. Among them: Chester Carlson, the arthritic, scholarly patent attorney who, in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, invented the process that made Xerox a name to copy. Linowitz tells how, as the firm's lawyer and later its chairman, he helped Carlson and Joseph Wilson, an impossibly energetic Rochester businessman, launch a product that ended up creating its own demand. The now ubiquitous machine, says Linowitz, "was a case where invention...
...comparison, World's Fair is downright guarded. Doctorow calls it a novel. But the book reads like a memoir, and is unmistakably based on the author's early boyhood in the Bronx. The account begins with a bed wetting in the middle of the Depression and ends on the eve of World War II with a nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler burying a cardboard time capsule containing a Tom Mix decoder badge, his school report on the life of F.D.R., a harmonica and a pair of Tootsy Toy lead rocket ships, "to show I had foreseen the future...