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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.
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).
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.
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