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Romance at 43. The closest Jefferson ever came to behaving with youthful indiscretion was at the age of 43, in his affair with Maria Cosway. At 22 this vivid, lovely, talented girl had married Richard Cosway, 39, a friend of the Prince of Wales and the most fashionable miniature painter in London. Maria was herself a painter of distinction, and apparently a virtuous woman, though gossips credited her with love affairs with the Prince of Wales, a singer, a painter, and the secretary of the Neapolitan ambassador...
...Russians (whom he liked) and the Soviet system (which he disliked) looked to a seasoned newsman who has seen a lot of the world but kept the basic viewpoint of his native Kansas. Readers will also find the book (which corrects some errors in the Digest version) no less vivid and readable than Author White's best-selling Journey for Margaret, They Were Expendable, and Queens Die Proudly...
Brilliant and melodramatic though these are, they seem to flash by like a scene of violence caught in the spotlight of a passing automobile, clear, vivid, frightening, but without relation to the life around it. Black Boy helps to explain that lack of relation. It is the story of a man set apart from his own race by sensitivity and intellect, yet barred forever from the white race by the color of his skin...
...caught up with Walton only six days out to sea, in the darkness before dawn when a U-boat attacked the Coast Guard cutter on which he was crossing the Atlantic (perhaps you remember his vivid story of the eight-hour battle in which the Spencer finally killed...
...liveliest and most informal dictionaries since Dr. Johnson's, it is also one of the easiest to read. It gives a vivid characterization of cowboys and their life...