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When his brother was there, the President liked to call O'Donnell into his office and say: "Tell Bobby why you think that idea of his is terrible." O'Do nell knew Bobby (on Harvard's 1948 football team) before he knew Jack. Described as "incredibly naive," "actually as soft as a marshmallow," "not a simple man but many different simple men," Bobby clearly was O'Donnell's favorite Kennedy. Dave Powers knew one side of Jack Kennedy: the man off duty, on shore leave from Father, Harvard and public office. But nobody, the memoirists...
...saga of a bitchy, boozy mother and the two daughters she victimizes is sentimental without really being tender, naturalistic without being real. The elder daughter (Roberta Wallach), a callipygous, gum-snapping high school cheerleader, suffers from epileptic seizures-presumably a result of life with mother. The younger, ethereal offspring (Nell Potts) escapes into the world of scientific research. She wins a prize for a school experiment concerning the supposed deleterious effects of gamma rays on sensitive marigolds: some survive, it seems, blooming beautifully. The parallel between flowers and daughters is stressed long past the point of endurance. Joanne Woodward...
Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach) is a model of the kind of controlled frenzy that many older and more experienced actors never master. Nell Potts (daughter of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) has a vulnerability and translucent beauty that summon up memories of the young Elizabeth Taylor. Her father directed quite nicely...
...Divine Comedy, the Revelations of St. John and the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh with a story whose surfaces occasionally resemble All in the Family. Happily Gardner is on record as believing that a novelist should tolerate, even affirm the banal and the ordinary. "When Dickens wept over Little Nell," he says, "it was not because he was a subtle metaphysician. He mistook her for human...
...Yale really put us on the spot several times in the game," O'Nell said. But our defense--and especially the linebackers--kept on going through the cold. The squad was aggressive and outstanding...