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...murder, or for a day or so after that? And how could Daughter Jill, so sweet and pure, shed her grief so soon and take up with her nymphomaniac sister's young lover? Any reader who thinks at this point that he is settling down to a Spoon River mystery or even a variant on An American Tragedy does not know his Grubb. As the story of the sheriff, his daughters and his dead wife unfolds, the murder is seen for what Grubb meant it to be: a mere clue to the piled-up passions and cruelties that...
...students in the survey had great expectations when they came to Harvard and a few probably had a heavy emotional investment in the college. One could say that such students were unrealistic, that no college in the world spoon-feeds epiphanies to its students; Harvard teacher many things, but cannot show you how to define yourself. Yet it is a serious thing when so many people here feel "like a number on an examination paper" at a time in their lives when they seek an identity above...
...experience. He managed his first political campaign-Jack's first run for the Senate in 1952-before his 27th birthday. And, like all the rest of Clan Kennedy, Bobby learned about politics under the influence of his grandfather, John ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, as soon as he learned to spoon up his Pablum by himself. The seventh of Joe and Rose Kennedy's nine children, he was born in his mother's bedroom in Brookline, Mass., was still in diapers when the family migrated to New York and Joe Kennedy set out to conquer Wall Street...
...opens this month) on a contract under which he writes his own lines; in Jerry Wald's In Love and War he picked up a field telephone up front in battle, said: "Good morning. This is World War II.'' As for television: "I think their spoon-feeding of the American public has resulted in a corruption and an ignorance that may sink this country," says Sahl solemnly. He wants, however, to destroy all the admen and network executives who have kept him at harm's length and most of the time...
Still boyish-looking at 43, Jack Kennedy has the gemlike qualities?highly polished, but hard and rather cold?sometimes found in men of silver-spoon birth, Ivy League education and high ambition. Once he decided to be a politician, he set for himself the highest possible political goal, the presidency, and he marched toward it with machinelike efficiency. For him, the House and Senate were not so much arenas of action as steppingstones to his goal. In the Senate he was conspicuous not for achievements of legislation or leadership but for youth, good looks, wealth, and the aura he exuded...