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...Calvino connoisseursis that his early work reveals a part of himselfthat is distinctly more personal from what thereader sees in his later work. Those new toCalvino would be better off starting else-where,but will find here a good story, well-told, thatcaptures the reality of wartime Italy, a poorboy's life, and the intersections...
With increasing sophistication, Americans no longer seem impressed with a born-in-a-log-cabin background. Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were born to wealth and flaunted shamelessly expensive tastes (while no one was much interested in Nixon's poorboy origin). Roosevelt demonstrated a characteristic of the classic hero, who, according to Historian Wecter, "envisages his era as a crisis, a drama of good versus evil, and himself as the man of destiny. In a sense, he must be a hero to himself before he can command that worship in others." Kennedy's record is mixed...
...Toole and Jason Robards Jr. were turned away because they weren't members or members' guests. Another of the Daisy's pleasures is that it has some of the most eye-filling females in the U.S. frugging and swimming their little hearts out in poorboy sweaters and nothing underwear...
Among the darkest hours in Jack Kennedy's drive for the presidency were those of late April 1960, just before the Democratic primary in West Virginia. In the economically depressed state, the poorboy liberalism of Rival Candidate Hubert Humphrey seemed to be stirring the voters. Kennedy, fearful that Humphrey would beat him, called up a reserve weapon: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.. whose father was still idolized in West Virginia...
...apparently brought on by a combination of fatigue, a cold, and by his awareness of the Kennedy surge. One day he could launch a nearly violent assault on Kennedy; the next day he could be relatively passive. At times, he could touch his listeners with a recital of some poorboy family anecdote (sample: a brother who died without the pony he'd always wanted, because his father had to meet the grocery bills). At other times, some well-tried statement that had produced yelps of approval before ("It's not Jack's money, it's yours...