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While stating that he was "very enthusiastic" about most of Johnson's domestic legislation and intentions. Lowell warned that "we are in danger of imperceptibly becoming an explosive and suddenly chauvinistic nation, and we may even be drifting on our way to the last nuclear ruin...
...time being, however, the King and the Socialist need each other. To head off a threatened boycott of moderate leaders that could ruin next month's Afro-Asian Summit Conference in Algiers, Ben Bella badly needs to change his image as an agent of subversion and revolution. How better to do so than by appearing friendly to his good neighbor Hassan, who is influential among the moderates of both...
...distant memories, showing almost immediately Quentin's four women: Louise, his first wife; Maggie, his second; Holga, to be his next; and Felice, a young dancer who brought him love but asked for no committment, unlike the other three women. We see a family disaster, his father's financial ruin; a political catastrophe--the decision of Mickey, a lawyer, to "name the names" to The Committee--and a moral catastrophe--the suicide of Lou, Mickey and Quentin's old professor of law, when no one but Quentin would support him against The Committee; and a personal disaster, the break...
...mother should be transparent, a ruin of beauty. Maureen Stapleton is as solid as a mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the role; all one hears in Miss Stapleton's voice is the jagged, chop-chop talk of a tenement mother. The garrulity is present but not the gallantry...
...steer outsiders to the right place. Ward became the guide, shepherding clients to the proper bureaus and pushing bills through Congress by means of his influence on Congressmen. He also became a power in his own right. He rallied support for the measures that saved U.S. currency from ruin after the Civil War, and he helped line up the votes that kept President Andrew Johnson from being impeached. He represented railroads, shipping lines, foreign nations, and even the Mormons, whom he helped win a federal land grant in Utah. Ward was not above gross trickery: once...