Word: writings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dirty laundry." She has more time on her hands, so she has been able to acquire and then kick an addiction to TV soap operas: "In my experience, the only thing you can quit cold turkey is cold turkey." She notes how hard it is for parents to write newsy letters to their mature offspring: "It's too bad that the kid isn't interested in your bronchitis or the fact that the Chevy broke down on the Triborough Bridge and had to be towed home...
...percales, principally with Greeks, among them vulgarian Businessman Petros Kalkanis and Naval Officer Teddy Avaliotis, whom she marries. Among other Sunday adventures, she is assaulted by her husband's mad father Costa. Kazan, a director of note (A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, America America) tends to write scenarios rather than novels. That might be acceptable except for the fact that his dramatis personae seem to be created for the viewer rather than the reader. Still, the novelist's ear for Greco-American intonations is uncanny, and his destructive bitch goddess is so lethal that her comeuppance deserves...
...command. And he wanted to be home by May 15. if he was going to run his own campaign. But Truman had always been "decent and honest" with him. He could not challenge President Truman except openly. We found ourselves all agreeing with Ike's final thought: to write his resignation letter to Truman in a sealed envelope, but to send the envelope to Lovett for delivery, with Lovett being told what was in the envelope. And then leave it to both of them to decide how to announce that General of the Armies Dwight D. Eisenhower was leaving...
...told her, 'Either please, God, take care of Daddy, or please, God, be nice to Daddy.' " What Jacqueline Kennedy was saying to me now was: please, History, be kind to John F. Kennedy, don't leave him to the bitter old men to write about...
...this, then, I tried to write the story. I typed in haste and inner turmoil in a servant's room, and in 45 minutes brought out the story...