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...starkly erotic letters. Nora's have not survived, but Joyce's reveal that both partners used these letters as aids to masturbation - thus deflecting their sexual desires for others. "One moment," Joyce writes, "I see you like a virgin or madonna; the next moment I see you shameless, insolent, half naked and obscene...
...would not be making fools of my family and myself in this shameless manner if I did not feel the end result somehow worthwhile. For this enjoyment-in-excelsis of rectangular portions of a slick weekly magazine comes about only as a result of a particular view of the world: that people are basically crazy, and that the only way to survive at all is through laughter. This philosophy has been carried through the centuries by the likes of Chaucer, Sheridan, Twain and Beerbohm. For the past fifty years the cartoonists in The New Yorker have espoused it, and have...
...several heroines: Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, Representatives Barbara Jordan and Elizabeth Holtzman. Aside from that, the book sags with speculation ("Yet there is a great deal that [Pat Ellsberg] does not say, but it is impossible to believe she has not felt") and shameless padding ("Jill Volner certainly did not grow up in a way that would lead any rational observer to suspect that she would ever break new ground or occupy a particularly unusual position"). Such blathering cannot hide a central fact: from Abplanalp to Ziegler, the actors and extras in the Watergate drama...
...become one of the major U.S. companies, largely due to the efforts of a former Golden Gloves lightweight from Omaha named Glynn Ross. He has been called everything from a publicity hound to the hip huckster of grand opera. He loves promoting. "Get ahead with Salome," read the shameless pun on one poster...
Aristocratic Disdain. Biographer Skidelsky, who teaches at Johns Hopkins, works hard at creating a sympathetic and revealing study of the root of Mosley's fascism. A shameless elitism and a longing for an almost feudal sense of self-sufficient community, a revulsion against war caused by his experiences in 1914, and an aristocrat's disdain for the middle class are primary elements in Mosley's career. The author goes soupy, however, when it comes to explaining Mosley the man. A comparison to Goethe's Faust-who used evil to gain a higher good-is material...