Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seldom this side of Plutarch have a great man's earliest moments been recorded in such pluperfect detail. But then, as Rebekah Baines Johnson went on to explain, her first son came from no common clay. Her matriarchal scrapbook saga of Lyndon's life, from birth (weight: 10 Ibs.) in "the rambling old farmhouse of the young Sam Johnsons" on the Pedernales until 1931, when he went to Washington as secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg, was presented to her son four years before her death in 1958. Last week, New York's McGraw-Hill published Rebekah...
Spectral Figures. Moyers is one of the men whom Political Scientist Louis W. Koenig describes in The Invisible Presidency as "the toilers in the shadows." "American History," contends Koenig, "is customarily written as a saga of great men, especially great Presidents. It needs also to be written-or rewritten-in terms of 'second men,' the spectral figures who toil influentially in the shadows around the presidential throne." Serving as "extensions of the President's personality, his eyes and ears," he adds, they cover a range "virtually as broad as the presidency itself...
...Russian surface vessel passes to port, simultaneously dipping its colors and dumping refuse over the side. Such cogency is missing from the standard high-megaton finale. Obviously made without the full cooperation of any specific navy, Incident emerges at last as its own worst enemy-a timely sea saga that cannot resist turning a treat into a preachment...
...flowers out of the air, and pops a little boy into the oven. Sighs Faustus: "Don't you ever get weary of the same old tricks?" Renata does. Having flogged herself with a whip, she enters a nunnery to repent by singing again on her stomach. The saga ends with the nuns staging an orgy with imaginary demons and Renata condemned to burn at the stake for raising the devil...
...another J.F.K.-and-I saga is forthcoming from former Frontiersman Kenneth O'Donnell, who vowed to keep silent after reading Eisenhower Speechwriter Emmet John Hughes's book about Ike. In O'Donnell's words: "You're in a man's office, and he trusts you, and then you do that-it's almost like a Peeping Tom." He was persuaded to write a book nonetheless. Meanwhile, says O'Donnell, he has turned down offers of corporation jobs paying up to $500,000 a year. Reason: he intends to run for Governor...