Word: hendrickson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person who actually found the dinosaur was Susan Hendrickson, then Larson's girlfriend. After 17 days of excavating, they had what would turn out to be the most pristine T. rex specimen ever found. Larson named the monster (which he thinks might even be female) Sue, in honor of her discoverer...
...Hendrickson's churning account begins with an anonymous man's attempt to throw McNamara overboard during a ferry ride to Martha's Vineyard in 1972. Many of Hendrickson's scenes and anecdotes first appeared in the Washington Post in the mid-'80s. Here the journalist looks further into McNamara's brilliant careers at the Harvard Business School and the Ford Motor Co. The record reveals a top-of-the-line number cruncher steeped in the values of corporate loyalty. But as Secretary of Defense, his mistakes cost lives, not shareholder dividends. And yet his responsibilities required a level of abstraction...
...Paul Hendrickson's The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (Knopf; 427 pages; $30) portrays the chief operating officer of the Vietnam buildup as a "tragically split man." Central to this view are McNamara's unsatisfactory answers to questions that have dogged him since he left the Pentagon on Feb. 19, 1968: Why did he choose to remain in office more than two years after he was telling colleagues the war was futile? And why did he continue to rationalize publicly a conflict he privately did not believe...
...heaven? Are you my mother?' See, they'd be starting to smell my perfume. It was either White Shoulders or Shalimar." At such moments The Living and the Dead can be as cleansing as a good cry in front of the Vietnam War Memorial. But too often Hendrickson inserts himself awkwardly into his design. The result is a form of not-so-new New Journalism full of breathless speculating in a kind of past-presumptive tense ("He must have been absorbing bundles of sensations, not all of them ordered or rational...
...explosion, everything else was a piece of cake. Even the human brain might be just the result of elaborate tinkering with details. Could some human brains be tinkering with details to try to prop up entrenched dogmas that are being severely undermined by marvelous discoveries like this one? JULIA HENDRICKSON Calistoga, California...