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...friends were taciturn, self-made men who shunned the spotlight. These were principally those two rich entrepreneurs, Bebe Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp. "I'm an introvert in an extravert profession," Nixon said-a formula that itself may have been a stratagem of concealment. When confronted with a crisis, he became more secretive than ever, withdrawing into seclusion and arriving at a decision with relatively little outside advice. Sternly self-controlled ("I have a fetish about disciplining myself"), he was stiff in public and rarely relaxed in private. As Author Garry Wills maintained in Nixon Agonistes, Nixon erected this "wall...
...second book, records that painful process and the events of the frenetic year after the publication of Sexual Politics, when the author was being hailed as the Karl Marx and the Mao Tse-tung of women's liberation. Millett describes how her "sisters" alternately pushed her into the spotlight and chastised her for being a star. While making a feminist film documentary (Three Lives) in London and New York, and trying to maintain her quiet artist's life with her Japanese husband Fumio, she had to deal with the more bizarre aspects of what she calls the movement...
...issue, next to stories about Dewey and Truman, was a picture of 23 Radcliffe women. The picture was headlined with the words "Non-partisan beauties." The caption read: "Politics didn't have the spotlight all to itself as the term went by. A pretty face and figure still carry a lot of appeal, and to prove, it, Mademoiselle (magazine) conducted a fashion show over at Radcliffe. The 23 lovelies shown above moved into the second round of the contest, which was held in October. Politics took a back seat, at least for the moment, while the contestants put themselves into...
...lonely, it never showed-except, perhaps, when he was backstage waiting to go on, looking weary from the day's travel, the bags under his eyes heavier than usual. Out in the spotlight, he was a new man, the fingers dancing merrily over the piano keys, the face lit up with joy. Duke Ellington once said, "My reward is hearing what I've done." It was everybody else's reward...
...pledged to have a final blueprint for the project on President Nixon's desk by Nov. 1. He readily admits that morale among the FEO's more than 2,000 employees plunged when the Arab oil embargo was lifted in March and the agency lost the crisis spotlight. Says Sawhill: "It shook out the malcontents, but the right people have stayed and now we are getting good at our job." He pledges to improve the administration of the agency, a job that he and Simon consciously ignored during the crisis...