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Pols such as Newt Gingrich love Johnson's reactionary revisionism (he adores Nixon, despises Kennedy), but Johnson's books are riddled with errors (he says Edison invented the telephone), and the English think him a social-climbing loony.
That, of course, is the kind of bottom-line thinking Beatty says he despises.
But Rodgers did tell Lewis that he despises Amelio because Amelio supported Clinton, so it is Rodgers' mistake, not our author's, that we are correcting.
She hates "harmonious," disdains "fragrant," and despises "dense," which she says "doesn't mean exactly anything."
There is so little intimacy between father and daughter that Catherine's life-changing realization that Sloper despises her is old news.