Word: truman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures into pasteboard grotesques; since that much is clear on the novel's opening pages, Coover's torrent of trivia seems like so much padding along the way to a foregone conclusion. He cannot resist parading his data: a nickname is provided for every U.S. President through Truman, and Betty Crocker, like a public address announcer, introduces the 96 U.S. Senators by name at the execution. He also likes to show off his literary ingenuity, as in a long narrative passage told through song lyrics. e.g., "... down to St. James' Infirmary on the trail of the lonesome...
...schemes would scorch the ears Truman Capote. In the three decades spanned by the novel- from the late Depression to the mid-'50s- she salvages Elesina from failure and alcohol, marries her to Irving and the Stein fortune, and finally launches her toward a seat in the House of Representatives...
...face it, whether it was an eccentricity or madness, MacArthur's colossal egotism was what made him famous and then, in his fight with Harry Truman over the conduct of his last campaign, brought him down. It was what set him apart from the good gray men like Eisenhower, Marshall and Bradley, those modest servants of the democratic spirit on the battlefield. It made him one of the great characters in our military history. It is the great reason to do a film about him, and it is simply a shame to turn him into a dull fellow onscreen...
Died. Tom Campbell Clark, 77, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-1967); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. The genial, Texas-born Clark came to Washington in 1937 and rose quickly in the Department of Justice, where he prosecuted war fraud cases. A close associate of Senator Harry Truman, he was appointed Attorney General when Truman became President, and an Associate Justice four years later. Clark initially aroused Truman's ire by joining the court's conservative wing, but gradually moved leftward as a member of the Warren Court. He wrote several far-reaching liberal opinions, including...
...Angeles suburb where he now lives, have attracted their share of hyperbole. One New York critic likened them to both Rubens' Marie de Medici cycle in the Louvre and Mantegna's frescoes in the Ducal Palace in Mantua - which may be the silliest indulgence since Truman Capote last compared himself to Marcel Proust. However, they are certainly among the most beautiful declamations in the language of the brush to have been uttered anywhere in the past 20 years...