Word: trumans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heady time to be young, famous and among the first into the era of postwar fiction. Vidal did not attend college; instead, he joined the class of Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, James Jones, John Hersey. An Alabama gamin named Truman Capote materialized, and he and Vidal were soon nightclubbing together and meeting for weekly gossip lunches amid the palms of New York's Plaza Hotel. "It was deadly to get caught in the crossfire of their conversation," recalls one who was there. "They were a pair of gilded youths on top of the world...
...Truman Capote: "He's made lying an art form-a minor art form...
...paraphrase Harry Truman, Mr. Moynihan is not giving anyone hell; he is simply telling the truth and they think it is hell...
...that lies ahead, and last week Jerry Ford seemed to be confident that he could take on anyone and win. To show he was in command, Ford personally briefed the press on his budget-the first President to do so since Harry Truman (see story following page...
...time of the Presidency of Mr. Richard Nixon, I considered that of Mr. Harry Truman the worst ever. Now I consider that of Nixon the worst. So far as I can see, you as President have changed nothing of substance from that of Nixon. True, you have introduced a ready smile, as did Mr. Eisenhower, and as with Henry Kissinger, your Secretary of State, you seem to have limitless physical endurance...