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...this year that has all collapsed. Yes, RFK is full. Yes, the Skins are better on paper than most teams. Yes, the players try hard. But we lose...
...fill RFK stadium to see them because Cooke loved his players with dollars and kept the team in tiny RFK because we made it shake...
...tried to figure out where the seeds of my antmostly were sown and I've decided that it was in RFK Stadium in Washington. D. C., where the Washington Senators used to play Filled with fatherly ambition, my father once took my older sister and me to a Senators game there, where he hoped to share some of his enthusiasm with...
...dark. And now Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., sometime teacher, sometime reviewer, sometime adviser, sometime historian, but always consummate storyteller, has come out with a massive remembrance of Bobby: Robert Kennedy and His Times. And the times, for Schlesinger, rise and fall very much in accordance with the fortunes of RFK, a man "who embodies the consciousness of an epoch, who perceives things in fresh lights and new connections, who exhibits unsuspected possibilities of purpose and action to his contemporaries." It will be hard to criticize such...
...current media Schlesinger's book has received, at best, mixed reviews. He is called a "court historian of Camelot," and his remembers of RFK are called a view through the "rheumy eyes of an old Cold War liberal." It is a shame, many write, that such a wealth of information about Kennedy had to come from the typewriter of such a loyal adherent of the clan. That Kennedy was an idealist, they don't dispute. But they resent Schlesinger's portrait of Kennedy as an ideal idealist--an untainted saint. Sure, Schlesinger received a Pulitzer Prize for history...