Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. The darkest side of murder-in this case the slaughter of a farm family in Kansas-is illuminated with a fidelity that makes the act as real as it was meaningless...
TIME'S Viet Nam coverage has been nothing less than outstanding, the story on Dean Rusk [Feb. 4] nothing less than just. Now, after a week of Fulbright's foreign relations circus, I think we can all agree with Truman's view of the man as "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b...
...Loss. Also unquestioned was Katzenbach's observation that electing Representatives only in presidential years would give the President a more cooperative House and lessen the chance of crippling legislative stalemates, such as those that stymied Herbert Hoover when Democrats took over the lower chamber in 1931 and Harry Truman when Republicans took command in 1947. Only once in this century-in 1934-has the presidential party not lost strength during off-year elections...
Moreover, for the first time, all seven 1965 executions involved convicted murderers. Only one of the seven murderers was a Negro; four died on the gallows in Kansas, including Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the "heroes" of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
Just when it has become uncertain what a novel is, everyone seems very sure that what he writes is a novel. There was Truman Capote's jumbo crime documentary, and now there is this "autobiographical novel" by Kenneth Rexroth...