Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Governor Carter projects a moderate public posture, he clearly stands in the genre of the traditional Southern politician...
...author sometimes has had to fall back on familiar anecdotes and cinematic clichés like "amazing," and "extraordinary." Still, she offers much previously unpublished material, and the book exposes as adulative blather most previous exploitations of the Kennedy women. The absorbing personage presented comes on as half pluperfect politician, half solitary saint...
Impenetrable Privacy. She, not Teddy, may be the family's best politician. Her campaign charm with the public at teas and lectures is nothing compared with her mastery of the press, to whom she reveals precisely what she chooses, and then drifts deftly off, preserving an impenetrable privacy. Even her children have called her "remote" and, indeed, she seems to have spent much of the last 30 years alone: walking alone, golfing alone, traveling alone. And praying. Thus she has endured the deaths by violence of four of her nine children, the near death, twice, of a fifth...
...Commencement day, after the handshaking and congratulations, that same chin will have fallen in and begun to take on the connotations of another politician, Richard Nixon-sobering, bedraggled, absorbed in its five o'clock shadow. The sunken eyes will recede a little deeper, but the straight-on gaze that says "Tell me your story" will remain as will the glittering beam of light that comes from some far off edge of the room and has lodged itself in this man's eyes...
...unlikely you'll ever find this politician perched atop his limousine raising twisted fingers to the cheering multitudes. It's lucky you noticed him at all over in his corner...