Word: pug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatively obscure businessmen to run state governments. A variety of millionaires won victories in this year's gubernatorial primaries: Democrats Robert Graham in Florida and Jake Butcher in Tennessee; Republicans William Clements in Texas and Jack Eckerd in Florida. "I am not a lawyer," boasts ex-Wall Streeter Charles ("Pug") Ravenel, who is running against veteran Republican Senator Strom Thurmond in South Carolina. Candidates who have never met a payroll, Ravenel argues, are not equipped to balance budgets. "I think we have a crisis of management in government. To solve public problems, we must energize the private sector and encourage...
...Despite his impressive accomplishments--lobbying for federal aid to the city, lowering the state income tax and eliminating a billion-dollar budget deficit--Carey projects coldness, aloofness, insensitivity. Aside from occasional forays back to the wilds of forgotten Brooklyn, where he doesn't mind stumping amidst a sea of pug noses and red hair, the governor hasn't been able to charm all those blue-collar and ethnic voters who grew up voting Democratic but wouldn't mind breaking the habit. Given the chance to vote for Duryea--a moderate conservative, almost a city dweller, a man who says...
...Pug's romance with Pamela Tudsbury, daughter of a British radio correspondent, began in Moscow in Winds of War. Here it advances the action on other fronts: the losing battle to keep Singapore from the Japanese, the winning campaign to take Africa back from the Germans. For the war's most painful and harrowing catastrophe, the Nazi destruction of Europe's Jews, Wouk employs the deepening distress of Natalie Jastrow Henry, Submariner Byron's Jewish wife. With her baby and her uncle Aaron Jastrow, a famous American Jewish author, Natalie is caught in Italy when...
...Eisenhower's good friend Kay Summersby, are drawn with lively precision. To outline the war's broad strategies, he again employs an unusual device, an invented history called World Holocaust, written from the enemy's viewpoint by a German general and translated, after the war, by Pug Henry himself. As for the fictional characters, their private adventures take place against explicit historical back drops. The novel's involvement with the complicated struggle to build an atomic bomb includes a conversation on pioneer nuclear physics that is a masterpiece of layman's clarity. The Navy...
...provide the novel's swiftest and most knowing passages. Yet for all the exhilaration his warriors display in combat, Wouk knows the bitter price of valor. Here and there he lectures too self-consciously. But even as a preacher the author can be effective. Through the voice of Pug, Wouk writes that the world's destiny rests on a pathetically simple hope: "Most people, even the most fanatical and boneheaded Marxists, even the craziest nationalists and revolution aries, love their children, and don't want to see them burn up." Those who lived through World...