Word: achesonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countless international responsibilities America has assumed in the past thirty years have serenely taxed the country's diplomatic resources. The fact that a number of able diplomats have arisen during this period. Therefore, is a one. Kennan and Acheson are two of the most outstanding products of the period, and their recent publications attest to the thoughtfulness and sensitivity they were able to bring to their work...
...Acheson's book is a completely different genre. If the merit of Kennan's book lies in its profundity and its classic prose; that of Acheson's lies in its sensitivity. Sketches from Life is a series of delicate personality sketches of Bevin, Schuman, Churchill, Molotov, Vyshinsky, Salazar, Vanderberg, Marshall and Adenauer...
...interest on three levels. Considered simply as a series of anecdotes and epigrams, it is highly amusing, though a bit slow in places. Its character sketches help the reader to understand many important figures of the postwar world. But perhaps its greatest value lies in what it reveals about Acheson himself...
...Acheson is obviously at his best in the company of follow diplomats. He is a sensitive man himself, and is quickly moved to boredom or anger when surrounded by lesser breeds...
...humorless Senator Taft, for instance, does not come in for very sympathetic treatment. At a Yale Corporation meeting with "Mr. Republican," Acheson recounts, the group was discussing Yale a science program. Taft interrupted a speaker to announce "Mr. President, I went through Yale without taking a single course in science...