Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Casey's campaign is equipped with the standard props -- cynical Irish father, devout Catholic mother, crazy aunts, WASP college roommates, leftist Jewish professors, a hard-boiled campaign manager, sex-crazed secretaries. Only Casey himself stands out from this familiar array. The first half of the book is a family chronicle of his illness, the second -- after a gap of twenty years -- the story of his race for President. The long hiatus leaves our understanding of Casey hopelessly incomplete...
...behind the beauty and bravado of Israeli life today, there lies an array of bewilderingly complex domestic problems. The "miracle in the desert" has been transformed into a highly urbanized society; 85% of the Israelis now live in the nation's four largest cities, while only 4% still live in the kibbutzim. Zionist Writer Ze'ev Jabotinsky remarked in the 1920s: "We won't really be a country until we have Jewish policemen and Jewish prostitutes." Today Israel has both...
...gargantuan 20,000-word interview in Rolling Stone, with Andy Warhol asking the questions, Truman Capote talks about a rambling array of subjects, including his half-finished, long-promised 800-page novel, Answered Prayers. It is, says Capote, about real people after World War II. One of them is a 19-year-old college girl who has an affair with her roommate's father. And the father is presidential timber. At least he thinks he is. Before four consecutive nominating conventions, he confidently expects to be the Republican candidate. Who is the character modeled after? Capote coyly refuses...
Throughout the year, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston produces an impressive array of chamber concerts. On Tuesday the 10th, baroque flutist Carol Epple will lead a program at the Museum. She is a very good player and can prove that ancient instruments do not have to be played out of tune. Incidentally, admission to the Museum is free on Tuesdays from 5 until 9: a good chance to look around before hearing the concert...
...letters, photographs, audio and video tapes" that deal with the June 17 break-in at the Watergate, and with the operations of anyone who dealt in espionage activities against the Democrats during the campaign. Also required are Fischer's "manuscripts, notes, tape recordings of communication" involving a vast array of people, including George McGovern, members of his campaign staff, the Washington metropolitan police department and members of the Democratic National Committee...