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...establishing himself at least for some as the greatest player of all time. Only eight years ago the teen angel drew the adoring squeals of British schoolgirls, and later the throngs of the tennis world who crowded his Wimbledon appearances. In the following seasons and pilgrimages to the English shrine of tennis, his revolutionary playing style and no-nonsense court side conduct earned him respect and defined professionalism in the game of tennis...
...this is pretty much what Wills wants to tell them in The Kennedy Imprisonment. You've been worshipping at a false shrine all these years, he is shouting to the legions of believers--your boy wonder was worse than just style without substance, he was style on top of sludge; not a great public leader, but a great public exploiter. The book is not a balanced or objective "analysis" of the Kennedy phenomenon. It is a merciless debunking of the Kennedy myth, fueled by intense indignation against every sucker who swallowed...
...everywhere, and Mona seemingly has convinced everyone that her missing son-the Jimmy Dean of the title-was fathered by the cinematic god himself. "At that time he was our savior," she says. "He was the only one who understood us." The crumbling movie set has become a holy shrine to her, and from every visit she proudly bears back a fragment, like a pilgrim with a relic of the true cross...
Those people who want the "shrine" to F.D.R. should pay for it themselves. The taxpayers are still spending money on his fumbles, and I do not wish to hand out more for yet another wasteful cause...
Later exhibitions will deal with Kandinsky at the Bauhaus and in Paris. By 1985, presumably, the Guggenheim Museum will have fulfilled its destiny as the St. Peter's of Kandinsky studies. That is fitting enough, since the museum is (so to speak) built over the ruins of a shrine that housed his cult in the 1940s. This was the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, set up and run by Solomon Guggenheim's mistress, the Baroness Hilla Rebay, who-in her dottily hierophantic devotion to the Great Artist, not to mention her purported Nazi sympathies-was for a time...