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...have been more in evidence if he were running for President-or head of the P.T.A. He returned to his alma mater, the Fessenden School in West Newton, Mass., where his youngest son, Patrick, 15, was graduating from the ninth grade. Next came Brown University for the graduation of Nephew John F. Kennedy Jr., 22. But it was last week's graduation of Daughter Kara, 23, from Tufts University that created an unusual family portrait. Kennedy and his wife Joan, 46, who filed for divorce last December, got together with all their children for the occasion. Although Kennedy once...
...novels, plays and essays can be divided roughly into three areas of animosity. The first is the author's belief that Western civilization erred when it abandoned pagan humanism for the stern, heterosexual authority of the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy. See Julian, his 1964 novel about the apostate nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions. See Myra Breckinridge; Myron...
...elitist institution then run on authoritarian lines. Both boys were rebels. Born underdogs they had been "almost the runts" of their respective litters. Jack was chronically ill; Lem had grown up "scrawny" and "practically blind." Neither boy was a match for his older brother. As Kennedy's nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. puts it, "When Lem and Jack got together, it was almost as if they were thumbing their noses at the world...
...heart of Charles's sweetheart Maria (Karen MacDonald). Matters become more complicated with the question of Charles and Joseph's inheritance from a rich uncle; the boys ward, a middle-aged curmudgeon bewildered by his pretty young wife, disagrees with the rich uncle as to which nephew is the more deserving; a game of mistaken identities is utilized to test the character of the young Surfaces; and several infidelities intervene. It all takes a bit more than three hours to unwind, and somehow, in the end, if all fits...
Anderson was born shortly before the end of World War I in Cincinnati, Ohio, but he considers himself a Yankee. He says he's not from a "very old Harvard family," but he is the grand-nephew of Nicholas Longworth Anderson of local bridge fame. After graduating from St. Paul's in New Hampshire he came to Harvard and got married after sophomore year--"which was considered shocking," Anderson adds. Anderson devoted his undergraduate career to rowing: "I did no work whatsoever, I rowed... I had fun rowing," admits the naturalized Easterner. Anderson's interest in nautical behavior took...