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This book concludes a two-part biography begun 14 years ago with the publication of Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, a brilliant, admiring portrait of F.D.R. The first book focused sharply on the peculiar combination of idealism, political instinct and guile that allowed F.D.R. to bend events to his will in the exciting days of the various New Deals. The Soldier of Freedom necessarily takes a broader world view with far less penetrating results. Huge chunks of the book turn out to be rewrites of World War II history. Roosevelt is wheeled on and off the world stage...
...turbulent, uncontrollable and cruel, the ocean eludes him in a way that other scenes do not. Landscapes are firm and familiar; still lifes intimate. Portraits, by their very nature, are personal. But the seascape must represent the aloof and detached ocean, and it is this defiant refusal to bend to man's control that has driven painters to conquer the sea on canvas. In a refreshing summertime exhibit, the Newark Museum has mounted two dozen marine paintings that show the various ways in which 19th century artists sensed the waters' many moods...
...earnings. Chrysler's real estate subsidiary, for example, has been reluctant to build low-rent ghetto housing because Chairman Lynn Townsend, who has been socially active in other areas, cannot yet foresee even a minimum profit in it. There are legitimate questions, too, of how much a company can bend its quality control standards in order to hire and keep poorly educated workers. If they produce shoddy goods or sloppy services, then customers are inevitably penalized. The Bell System's commendable record of recruiting employees from the slums has contributed to the recent decline in telephone service...
...understanding that it wasn't our fault. Nobody made us feel ashamed," recalls one poor white Southern girl. In another passage, a Chicago door-to-door salesman remembers it differently: "Shame? You tellin' me? I would go stand on that relief line, I would bend my head low so nobody would recognize me. The only scar it left on me is my pride, my pride...
...York, his working premise seems to be that everything in the world of supertown is so oversize and so shrill that no one notices any of it. Mass anesthesia is the result. His remedy: to shrink life to the miniature so that the reader is obliged to bend and squint to see the madness, perfectly proportioned to a bizarre cameo...