Word: sinatras
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...stream-of-schlock, often fascinating though sometimes overwhelming. Figures like Marilyn Monroe ("She exulted in her carnality") and Fiorello LaGuardia ("swashbuckling five-foot-two-inch mayor") coexist in a kind of cartoon version of American folklore. About three pages are devoted to the life and times of Frank Sinatra-juxtaposed with a mini-history of the atomic bomb. In the spinning mind of the reader, the Bay of Pigs and the Edsel seem to loom as equal disasters. The Cliquot Club Eskimos and the Chicago Seven, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Howdy Doody-one is no more weightless than the other...
...good sense would want to leave the Island? The Vineyard has everything--fresh seafood, clean air, unspoiled beaches, and such interesting people. There are year-round celebrities, like James Taylor, Carly Simon, and James Cagney, but these keep a lower profile than the brash intruders like Frank Sinatra--who arrives annually in yachts 100 feet long and longer. And there are intellectuals to provide some sophistication, ranging from Doris Kearns to Ewart Guinier '33, from Rev. Harvey Cox to Roger Baldwin...
...time went on, The Beatles became much more than fantasies of pre-pubescent girls. Esquire Magazine dubbed The Beatles "Purveyors of the New Sentimentality"; newspapers hailed them as "the Voice of the '60 s"; and critics compared them to Beethoven and Chopin, Sinatra and Presley, Eliot and O'Neill. In high schools, English teachers used "relevant" Beatle songs to communicate with their alienated students. In academia, scholars minutely analyzed the irony and symbolism of "Sergeant Pepper." People were married to the music of The Beatles, and at least one man had his funeral conducted to the tunes of the Liverpool...
...Henry Kissinger's next mission should be a good-will trip to Australia to calm the wake left by the spoiled and ill-mannered Sinatra [July 22]. Do us all a favor, Frankie. and return to retirement...
...arrogant Mr. Sinatra doesn't like the press, just as his friend the arrogant Mr. Agnew didn't like it, or the arrogant Mr. Nixon. What this shows is how ungrateful these people are for the very institutions that enabled them to climb to social, political and economic heights in the first place. If it weren't for the free press we would have long since had a ruling class in America, and these men would certainly have been peasants, not aristocrats. The self-made man is a phenomenon possible only in a free society. How pathetic...