Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson felt sufficiently at home to josh the President on a sensitive subject. When Johnson commented lightly on the Labor Party's precarious two-seat margin in Parliament, the Prime Minister shot back with a remark about Johnson's "86 votes"-a nearly accurate reference to the scandal-tinged 1948 Texas senatorial primary in which Lyndon squeaked through by 87 votes. The President protested: "You haven't been here six hours, and you've already taken one vote away from me." Retorted Wilson: "Mr. President, you can afford to lose one vote...
...university's Labor Club, helped found the more moderate Democratic Socialist Club. While still in his 20s he wrote a biography of his friend and political mentor Clement Attlee, has since penned three historical works, including a bestseller on Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. His latest: Victorian Scandal (see BOOKS), about the ruination of Liberal Sir Charles Dilke. "I regard writing as the only real work," Jenkins once said, and he does it well enough for the Economist to have once considered him for its editorship...
...first wordless encounter takes place aboard a tramcar in Moscow, and the headlong rush of their interwoven destinies is a subtle, unifying symbol of Zhivago. Trains wail along outside the house where Lara and her mother's self-seeking lover (Rod Steiger) generate the first sparks of scandal. After the revolution, a train carries Yuri, his wife Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin) and his family away to the relative safety of the Urals; and Lean bears down on every detail of their flight across an endless white snowscape in which ordinary human values seem suddenly locked in deep freeze...
VICTORIAN SCANDAL by Roy Jenkins. 447 pages. Chilmark Press; Random House...
Youngest Ever. Long forgotten by all but avid devotees of Victoriana, Dilke and his scandal were recently and rather carelessly reconstructed in a melodrama (The Right Honourable Gentleman) that ran a year and a half in London and is now maintaining a precarious life on Broadway. The tragedy deserves more responsible treatment, and this it has been given by Roy Jenkins, a political historian who is Minister of Aviation in Britain's Labor government. After a study of all available evidence, some of it never before made public, Jenkins concludes that Dilke was framed and finished...