Word: achesonism
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...cobbled a blue-chip beach read. Shrewdly designed for today's shorter attention spans, The Fifties plugs in dozens of set pieces, vignettes and profiles from the period spanning the last days of World War II and the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy TV debates. The book ends abruptly with Dean Acheson complaining that both candidates appeared too cold, calculating and boring. It is Halberstam's way of trying to freshen up an old point: that the debates, in which Nixon looked uncomfortably shifty and Kennedy came off as poised and decisive, changed forever the way politicians were packaged and sold...
Eleanor D. Acheson, who co-chairs the Clinton/Gore Finance Committee of New England, emphasized that the legal community often supports active political involvement...
...carry your own practice and do your own work and contribute to your firm, these things are very much encouraged," Acheson said...
...common image of a U.S. Secretary of State is that of Dean Acheson, Cyrus Vance, James Baker -- a suave Wasp lawyer, slender and urbane, who probably rowed at Yale or Princeton. But Lawrence Eagleburger, the new Acting Secretary, looks like the Michelin man with a cane. He once had an exercise bike fitted with a special rack so he could read diplomatic cables; it stood unused so long it was finally removed, and now he's ballooned to more than 250 lbs. He's had a knee-replacement operation, takes steroids for a muscle disorder, and has been spotted with...
Over the decades, a parade of big-name U.S. peacemakers came and went. George Ball, Dean Acheson, Cyrus Vance and Clark Clifford all broke their picks on the problem...