Word: splendid
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...Presidents in trouble had claimed kinship. Franklin Roosevelt once suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. This season Truman quotes have been manufactured and mangled, while his prepolitical identity is often shortened to "dirt farmer." There is a suspicion that very few have studied McCullough's splendid text, particularly the first part. Bush admitted he jumped over some of that and went straight to the campaign of 1948. (Young George Bush voted for Dewey that year...
...from Africa's year 1500 to European-sounding formulas about "science and rationality." In 1961, with civil war erupting around him and his own assassination only days away, Patrice Lumumba, the newly independent Congo's first Prime Minister, wrote a letter to his wife in which he conjured a splendid vision: "History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or in the United Nations . . . Africa will write her own history, and . . . it will be a glorious and dignified history...
...leaves behind splendid memories. In 1984 he led the Celtics to an N.B.A. championship that included two tense overtime victories over the Lakers and his friend Magic Johnson. In the 1987 eastern conference finals, with one second left and the Celtics down 107-106, Bird intercepted a Detroit ball and passed off for the winning basket. Said he: "I could take my game to the next level just on the roar of the crowd." In the constellation of athletes who helped propel the N.B.A. to record popularity and profitability in the past decade, Bird will be linked with his Dream...
...Morris does not force any of these conclusions on the viewer. He believes that one of the great spectacles the movies have to offer is people sitting around and talking. The visual material he employs to illustrate physical theory is deliberately user-friendly. It does not compete with his splendid talking heads. All of Hawking's friends, relatives and colleagues are located in rooms that look real but are in fact stage settings. There is practical reason for this: controlled lighting. But there is a metaphorical reason too. Each setting is a cosmos, familiar looking as the stars at night...
Just in time for the annual August vacation of psychiatrists there arrives a splendid mystery set in the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Institute. In THE SATURDAY MORNING MURDER (HarperCollins; $20), by Batya Gur, an analyst has been murdered. The suspects include her psychologically astute colleagues, who harbor mixed feelings about the victim...