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...spirit of his era it was Crosby. This golden-haired nephew of J.P. Morgan spent a lifetime scrambling after insight and sensations others had long since experienced; obsessed with material possessions and the construction of elaborate mythologies. Yet his diaries ruthlessly expose foibles, and paint portraits in the starkest tones of a man and an era when flight -- physical and intellectual -- was a dominant preoccupation...
Sharp Edge. In a note at the be ginning, Condon warns that "this is not a history." In a note at the end, he insists that except for several fictional characters and situations, "the rest is starkest history as it was lived." Both statements cannot be true, but it hardly matters. The Abandoned Woman is nei ther a profound distortion of the record nor a historical expose, but rather an act of literary sword swallowing. It is a tale with plenty of sharp edge and no vis ible point. ∙Paul Gray
...Policy. The New York City-born attorney, now 32, was a student civil rights activist who went to Mississippi in the mid-'60s, where he "saw in the starkest terms people who were extraordinarily hungry and needed government assistance." Only five months out of law school (New York University, class of '68), Pollack filed 26 suits in a single day against foot dragging on food programs by 26 states and the Agriculture Department. "I was arrogant," he now concedes. But, proceeding with careful research and thorough preparation, he won 25 of the 26. These legal triumphs helped...
...starkest example of Carter's use of code-word racism in his search for votes came two weeks ago in South Bend, Indiana. Carter said the federal government should not attempt to break down the "ethnic purity" of white neighborhoods by assisting blacks or other minorities to move to such neighborhoods. He spoke of "alien groups," meaning blacks, and with less subtlety, in a newspaper interview a few days before the South Bend speech, referred directly to "black intrusion...
...special purgative purpose. Said William Taylor, executive director of the Travelers Aid International Service: "I think people are responding to the feeling of responsibility that our participation in the war helped make these children orphans. Some would call it guilt." President Ford put the matter in the simplest, starkest terms. "This is the least we can do," he said. "And we will do much, much more...