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Spectral Figures. Moyers is one of the men whom Political Scientist Louis W. Koenig describes in The Invisible Presidency as "the toilers in the shadows." "American History," contends Koenig, "is customarily written as a saga of great men, especially great Presidents. It needs also to be written-or rewritten-in terms of 'second men,' the spectral figures who toil influentially in the shadows around the presidential throne." Serving as "extensions of the President's personality, his eyes and ears," he adds, they cover a range "virtually as broad as the presidency itself...
...flowers out of the air, and pops a little boy into the oven. Sighs Faustus: "Don't you ever get weary of the same old tricks?" Renata does. Having flogged herself with a whip, she enters a nunnery to repent by singing again on her stomach. The saga ends with the nuns staging an orgy with imaginary demons and Renata condemned to burn at the stake for raising the devil...
...another J.F.K.-and-I saga is forthcoming from former Frontiersman Kenneth O'Donnell, who vowed to keep silent after reading Eisenhower Speechwriter Emmet John Hughes's book about Ike. In O'Donnell's words: "You're in a man's office, and he trusts you, and then you do that-it's almost like a Peeping Tom." He was persuaded to write a book nonetheless. Meanwhile, says O'Donnell, he has turned down offers of corporation jobs paying up to $500,000 a year. Reason: he intends to run for Governor...
...saga of Gemini 5 was widely reported for the ear on radio and the eye on television, and in the daily headlines. The aim of TIME'S mission is to go to a substantially greater depth than the sounds and sights and to present a coherent, meaningful story of the flight−its drama, its trials and its significance−in terms that reach not only the ear and eye but also the mind...
Money & Truth. Discovered last April 27 among the papers of Royall Tyler, an unsuccessful suitor of John's daughter Abigail, in the archives of the Vermont Historical Society, the new diary contains entries from 1753 to 1758, partly overlapping the previous diary and pushing the saga of John's life back two years to his career as a Harvard sophomore. The discovery shows a younger John Adams, says L.H. Butterfield, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, and "sheds a good deal of light on the character and training of the farmer's son who became...