Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ARTHUR RACKHAM; DULAC; THE ENGLISH DREAMERS; THE CHRISTMAS BOOK; TEMPTATION. Edited by David Larkin. Bantam Books. $5.95 each. With tireless research and unfailing taste, Editor David Larkin has assembled this striking series of low-priced museums without walls. Arthur Rackham and Dulac celebrate the greatest book illustrators of the Edwardian epoch. The English Dreamers displays the lush, romantic works of such pre-Raphaelites as Burne-Jones and Millais. The Christmas Book is a rich survey of Yuletide art from ancient Collier's magazine covers to the naive masterworks of Grandma Moses. Only one caveat: four of these five bargains...
...where he became publisher of the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and she edited the women's page and had another child. When Boettiger went into the Army in World War II, Anna returned to the White House, where F.D.R. found her company more relaxing than that of her tireless mother Eleanor. Divorced in 1949 by Boettiger, who later committed suicide, Anna married Dr. James Halsted in 1952 and devoted her civic energies to women's rights and racial justice...
...about photography, traveling the country shooting pictures for 4% years. At 21, he made his first short subject, three years later his first fictional feature-very low budget. He also audited Columbia University courses conducted by the likes of Lionel Trilling and Mark Van Doren, and became a tireless reader with catholic tastes. "I can become interested in anything," he says. "Delving into a subject, discovering facts and details-I find that easy and pleasurable...
Until Kentucky's schools opened this fall, Democratic Governor Julian Carroll, 44, seemed a clear favorite to be returned to the statehouse. A down-home lawyer from West Paducah, the silver-haired Carroll is a tireless campaigner and an evangelistic orator who sounds, in the words of one state politician, "like Gomer Pyle at the Second Coming." Then, under federal court order, the yellow school buses began to integrate schools in Louisville and the rest of Jefferson County, and suddenly Carroll was sharply challenged by Republican Robert E. Gable, 41, a coal and lumber millionaire...
...cease-fire was the result of Premier Rashid Karami's tireless wheedling, pushing and talking with leaders of the rival warring factions (see box). But there was no agreement on any of the political issues that have divided Lebanon between conservative Christians, who constitute less than 40% of the population, and predominantly Moslem leftists, who are in the majority and want political reforms that would result in a more equitable distribution of power now largely in Christian hands...