Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only one man's diagnosis of the nation's health. It will be, as it should, a report based on ideas gleaned from countless economists and educators, politicians and poets, official and unofficial advisers. With his wide acquaintanceship, his readiness to pick brains by phone or in person, and his considerable capacity for absorbing viewpoints, the President has as accurate and comprehensive a view of the state of the union...
...Bobby's tax screen, receiving as "legal fees" $37,000 from Baker clients in 1963-64. Most of this, the grand jury found, ended up as cash in Baker's pockets. The scheme became so routine, however, that Baker began ignoring his pal altogether and having "a person other than Wayne L. Bromley" endorse the checks. Bromley was one of the grand jury's key witnesses and, though he was named as a "conspirator" with Baker in the tax-evasion scheme, he was not named as a defendant...
...doubt that Castro's drift toward Moscow was the real reason. "I thought this was a long-term proposition," Castro said, "but the other party did not understand it that way." As a result, the Cuban rice ration was lopped in half-from 6 lbs. a month per person to 3 lbs. Oh, well, shrugged Fidel, a rice-free diet "can be much richer in proteins, vitamins, minerals and energy," which was not much consolation to a populace that has always based its meals on Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians), as many Cubans fondly call their staple beans...
Much more than the "verbatim" document it was first announced as, In Cold Blood is a new kind of saga, and a unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise of Capote, the literary mannerist. He has abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly...
This position, Roche said, disqualifies DeGuglielmo under the section of the city charter that reads "no person who has within two years been elected to or served in any elective office in the city or county...shall be chosen as manager...