Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shade of Difference, Drury (3, last week...
...Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. A Shade of Difference, Drury...
...Angier Biddle Dukes, ham for 30 at the Averell Harrimans. At the most exclusive dinner of all -in the White House family dining room -were the President and Jackie Kennedy; 78-year-old Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth (as Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, her fondness for a certain shade of blue inspired In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown, a song far more enduring than any in Mr. President); Colombian Ambassador Carlos Sanz de Santamaria and his wife; and Artist William Walton...
...exaggerated. According to the Entomological Society of America, only 0.28% of the 640 million acres of U.S. forest land is treated annually, and 613 million acres have never been treated. Insecticides are used mostly on crop lands, which have little wildlife, and on human residential areas to protect shade trees- the use that causes the most conspicuous damage to wildlife...
...strength of Advise and Consent was Drury's narrative skill, which played off character against character in sharply focused scenes, and the sharp insider's insight into Washington and the U.S. Senate that provided much of the book's fascination. In A Shade of Difference onetime U.N. Correspondent Drury fails to make the U.N. come alive in the same crackling way, and often mires his story in mawkish melodrama and details so fine that they manage to be tedious rather than interesting. Maybe the U.N. is that way, and Author Drury could not help himself...