Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beneath its florid style, Donleavy's fairy tale of New York is stark and compelling. Parts of A Fairy Tale of New York appeared as a play, "Fairy Tales of New York," which was produced on the London stage in 1961. In the novel, an enlarged and fundamentally altered work built around the play, Donleavy has stripped the classic fairy tale of its sharp dichotomy between good and bad, while retaining many of its mythic qualities. He has written an intensely personal vision of universal gloom. Like his hero, Donleavy was raised in New York, and like him, he sports...
...Johnson impeachment serves stark warning of the danger to a President who mixes unpopularity with a combative affront to Congress. By the same token, however, the Johnson trial is also a reminder that an emotional political railroading is likely to offend enough Senators to prevent conviction. Unfortunately, the Johnson case's historical interest is not matched by much useful guidance on legal issues. So politically charged were the proceedings that authorities generally regard it as an abuse of the impeachment power...
...leading international architect to rise in Texas in the past year (the other three are Louis Kahn's barrel-vaulted Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth [TIME, Jan. 15], Philip Johnson's white cubist Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi and Edward Durell Stone's stark brick Amarillo Art Center). Certainly the Mies building is the most problematic- an anthology of his vices and virtues...
...grandfatherly twinkle of one who has seen 'em all come and go, West offers the reader a fly-on-the-wall view of such things as a housemaid and F.D.R., in turn, discovering House Guest Winston Churchill's proclivity for stomping around his rooms, chomping his cigar, stark naked. West recalls Harry Truman's unreconstructed Southern mother's downright refusal to sleep in Lincoln's bed. Lyndon Johnson's specially installed, multinozzled, Texas-strength shower nearly knocked the newly elected Nixon clear out of the bathroom...
...memory rather than logic will probably be the decisive factor. If the Indochina horrors are only dimly recollected by current Harvard students--eighth graders at the height of the American intervention--the Right's arguments may carry the day. If, however, America's war crimes have not lost their stark, searing vividness, ROTC will once again be turned down. In some sense, the dispute's outcome hinges on when the Class of '77 stopped reading Batman and started reading about MyLai...