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He could hardly countenance any public appearance of an ongoing contention between Dean Gooderham Acheson/ Yale/ Secretary of State/ and Joe McCarthy/ Chicken Farmer/ Marquette --wherever Marquette was--/ Junior Senator from --a state that had lost its senses.
The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.
At the corner of St James's Place and St James's Street was the map store owned by Sir Francis Chichester, of single-handed sailing fame; across St Jame's Street was-- still is--Boodle's, a club for the gentry; round the corner was the famous French restaurant, Prunelle's.
She's definitely broken new ground in establishing how thoroughly bifurcated their extended family was--Franklin's circle/Eleanor's circle, Franklin's place (Warm Springs)/Eleanor's places (Val-Kill and Campobello), Franklin's surrogate spouses (Lucy Mercer and Missy LeHand)/Eleanor's surrogate spouses (one-time state trooper and bodyguard Earl Miller and Lorena Hickok).
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