Word: vatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fund-raising tour that actually turned into one long interview-with the aide asking the questions and the author chattering away about China, love, art, the foundation, and inexhaustibly about herself. The result is her 70th book and her second memoir, which echoes the earnest and vaguely vatic tone of her first, A Bridge in Passing, published...
...noble bonfire, my son, and worth the risk of getting burnt." Icily realistic, she threw cold water on his early sizzling success. "Let's hope it lasts," she said at his coronation. Later she advised against involvement in Spain and Russia, Napoleon's two biggest mistakes. Eerily vatic, she was "informed" of his death on the very day it happened, 5,000 miles away, and proclaimed with Napoleonic theatricality: "Inexorable history is seated on his coffin." She died in Rome at 86, alone except for a few passing strangers who had paid the janitor a penny...
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