Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALAMEIN: A MONTY MEMOIR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). British Field Marshal Montgomery recalls, with the help of actual combat footage, how his Eighth Army defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps in the North African desert 25 years...
...equation of his own "erosion"-he is now 86-with the decline of the West has an endearing arrogance. Yet there is much to excuse his consciousness of belonging to an elite. It is this consciousness, in fact, that raises his book from being merely an insider's memoir of the liberal British intelligentsia-although on this level alone it is very highly readable. It is still amusing to hear, in Woolf's tone of melancholy malice, how "Tom" Eliot confessed that he had "behaved like a priggish, pompous little ass" on a weekend. And it is still...
...Cambridge, Woolf was one of the "Apostles"-a tiny, self-perpetuating club that once included Bertrand Russell. Later he was a charter member of the group known to the public as "Bloomsbury" and to itself as "the Memoir Club." They read their own memoirs to each other. It lasted for 36 years but of its members, only John Maynard Keynes seems to have had any great influence on the course of events. It was "the worst, full of passionate intensity," who, as Woolf sees it, overwhelmed the rational world of the Apostles and Bloomsbury. "Catholics, Communists, Rosicrucians and Adventists"-Woolf...
...WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, WITH HARRY REASONER (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Rose Kennedy conducts a tour of the late President's boyhood home in Brookline, Mass., on "JFK-The Childhood Years: A Memoir for Television by His Mother...
...took over from Douglas MacArthur after President Truman fired the aging hero. (As a younger generation of hawks and doves now scarcely remember, MacArthur had publicly criticized the President for not allowing him to strike back at Red China across the Yalu.) In a brisk personal and military memoir, Ridgway, who is now 72 and retired, reviews the U.S.'s first major confrontation with Communism in Asia...