Word: achesonism
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...Winnick has collected an extensive selection of the letters of this extraordinary man. The impressive range of correspondents reflects MacLeish's wide-ranging interests and his knack for getting involved with the public of his time. He was particularly close to Amy Lowell, Dean Acheson, and Ernest Hemingway. He wrote often to Henry Luce, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot '10, and occasionally to Felix Frankfurter. J. Robert Oppenheimer and F.D.R. And the letters are full of MacLeish's articulate and often beautifully phrased observations on everything from political campaign strategies to the function of poetry. What emerges...
...first in his class. But three years of promising law practice and lecturing in constitutional law at Harvard College left him unsatisfied; in a letter to his family he calls the law "a mockery of human ambition for reality." And as he wrote Yale and Harvard Law classmate Dean Acheson, law and poetry were for him "eternal irritant." So he set off for Europe to become a poet, reading and reeducating himself before starting to write, supported principally by his generous father...
...Affairs under the pseudonym "X." He has spent much of his life since then criticizing the way in which eight successive Presidents have followed his advice. Significantly, he has not included that famous Long Telegram in this collection of past writings. Instead, he reprints a 1950 memorandum to Dean Acheson warning against putting much faith in nuclear weapons as instruments of policy...
...Acheson Callaghan declined to return phone calls to his office...
Running backs Jim Acheson. Steve Branucci and Jim Callinan, the three who have walked the petition around to the players since December, have taken most of the heat. But they are not the ringleaders, they are the messengers--delivering the feelings of virtually all the seniors...