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Underlined Horror. Books like this tend to be ghostwritten, but Mrs. King wrote this one herself. The resulting weaknesses are also the book's strength. If there is an overabundance of expressions of gratitude to myriad friends, there is also much affection that might have been mawkish if presented in more professional prose. The story, moreover, is full of details: The Kings' eldest daughter Yolanda explaining at school that her daddy "goes to jail to help people"; the awed Martin Luther King Sr. listening to his son preach in London's St. Paul's Cathedral...
Though his delights were simple, Donovan's mind was a complex of projects. He had the music for his fall tour to think about, and the myriad of details needed to set up the house, such as how to get the phone company to install phones when they claimed they were "short of cable in his area." He mentioned some plans to make short movies. Most important, however, seemed to be his concern for the community. He mentioned it several times while I was there, and wanted to know what Arlo Guthric was doing in Stockbridge. Donovan is trying...
Hard Information. Her new book contains some bits of hard information in what many will regard as a large (444 pages) and shapeless piece of sentimentalism. For example, it dispels the myriad rumors about the fate of Stalin's infamous secret police chief, Lavrenty Beria. One persistent story has it that he was shot or strangled by his colleagues at a meeting of the Politburo right after Stalin's death. Setting the record straight, Svetlana repeats that General A. A. Vishnevsky, chief surgeon of the Soviet Army, told her that Beria was summarily tried in 1953, held...
...must get used to the fact that their world has witnessed the growth of a separate youth culture, or "counterculture." For many of the kids in it, pot is a part of growing up, and the great majority have no intention of freaking out for good. The young need myriad new opportunities to come to terms with life. In the long run, adults can do most to allay
...analyze the current state of business from available statistics are something like the legendary three blind men who tried to find out what an elephant was like by feeling its trunk, legs and tail. The Government gathers some statistics in stupefying detail; many critics, for example, consider the myriad crop statistics published by the Agriculture Department to be a quixotic extravagance. On the other hand, some key figures that might disclose how much inflationary pressure remains in the economy are not collected at all; others are sketchy and still others unreliable. "We assume a lot of information is available that...