Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For all the Administration's grape-shots at reporters, there are those favored journalists. One is Columnist Joseph Alsop, the closest thing in the Washington press corps to an "effete snob." The stories about Alsop abound: how he reads Sun Tzu's The Art of War in the...
On Discipline: "For 20 years, there has been no discipline of children. You don't inhibit them even if they are threatening to break up the whole house. Now we are reaping the results. Margaret Mead caused a lot of the trouble. She advocates taking drugs and early marriages...
Mandel was surprised that the Justice Department opposed his entry into the U.S., "surprised that the American government is afraid of people who defend Marxist doctrine when many Marxist books are freely sold in the U.S." But he feels he has made some capital out of his rejection. "If I...
Shakespeare, a former television executive who has little tolerance for negative thinking, was distressed by the apparent defeatism of his seasoned staffers and he is trying to do something about it. He has set out to remold USIA as a hard-sell exponent of U.S. policies in the 104 lands...
Similar complaints have been raised about Shakespeare's efforts to purify the books distributed to USIA libraries. Authors John Updike, John Kenneth Galbraith and Philip Roth, among others, have been blacklisted for not presenting the most admirable views of American character. But blacklisting was not Shakespeare's idea...