Word: achesonism
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...also weaves a story only slightly less convoluted than its prose style. The year is 1956, when the cold war was gelid. The U.S. and the Soviets are racing to get the first satellite into orbit. While CIA Chief Allen Dulles frets and a viciously urbane Dean Acheson argues that a Soviet space triumph may be necessary to shake American complacency, the agency plans to kidnap a top Soviet scientist. Enter Buckley's later ego, ex-Yalie Blackford Oakes, fresh from triumphs in two earlier works (Saving the Queen, Stained Glass) and eager for yet another chance to save...
...Brzezinski too wanted the Carter Administration to distinguish itself from its predecessors by being "less hung up," as he once put it, on the Soviet challenge. He sought a "differentiated" foreign policy freed from the we/they, East/West bipolarity that underlay Henry Kissinger's Realpolitik no less than Dean Acheson's containment and John Foster Dulles' brinkmanship...
Harry Truman took a liking to Joe Stalin, but when he got a case of the old dictator's best vodka, Truman gave it away, wondering about any man who would drink the stuff over bourbon. Truman watched with fascination as Secretary of State Dean Acheson verbally diminished Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, who had the idea he should be a larger figure around the White House...
...extraordinary one-century course of American involvement in China. It is a history of passionate infatuation and ruthless exploitation, of missionary zeal and often of tremendous mutual incomprehension. The cycle started with the education in Hartford, Conn., of China's first foreign students in 1872. Eventually, as Dean Acheson wrote, "hardly a town in our land was without its society to collect funds and clothing for Chinese missions ... Thus was nourished the love portion of our love-hate complex that was to infuse so much emotion into our later China policy...
...second quarter, frosh halfback Matt Aney sprained his ankle to weaken further an offensive backfield already wracked by injuries. Quarterback Ron Cuccia is expected to return from his partially separated shoulder injury in time for the Yale game on November 17, but halfback Jim Acheson is definitely lost for the season with a dislocated knee...