Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suave not just by Soviet standards-which leave ample room for clumsiness-but by any criteria. He knew how to talk to Americans in a way brilliantly attuned to their preconceptions. He was especially skilled at evoking the inexhaustible American sense of guilt, by persistently but pleasantly hammering home the impression that every deadlock was our fault...
...could be as ruthless or duplicitous as any other Communist leader. But I considered his unquestioning support of the Soviet line an asset, not a liability: it enabled us to measure the policies of his masters with precision. Occasionally he would give me his personal analysis of American politics; without exception it was acute and even wise...
...been the only Premier the People's Republic had had -nearly 22 years-and for nine of those years he had also been Foreign Minister. He was equally at home in philosophy, reminiscence, historical analysis, tactical probes, humorous repartee. His command of facts, in particular his knowledge of American events and, for that matter, of my own background, was stunning. There was little wasted motion either in his words or in his movements. Both reflected the inner tensions of a man concerned, as he stressed, with the endless daily problems of a people of 800 million and the effort...
What extraordinary vehicles destiny selects to accomplish its design. This man, so lonely in his hour of triumph, so ungenerous in some of his motivations, had navigated our nation through one of the most anguishing periods in its history. He had striven for a revolution in American foreign policy so that it would overcome the disastrous oscillations between overcommitment and isolation. Despised by the Establishment, ambiguous in his human perceptions, he had yet held fast, determined to prove that the strongest free country had no right to abdicate. What would have happened had the Establishment about which...
...male school friends in a new French film Tous Vedettes (All Stars). At 48, Caron remains alluringly convincing as Lucille, the French actress who has come home to Paris from Hollywood successes to amuse herself with l'amour. The daughter is played by Kitty Kortes-Lynch, 20, an American actress who looks so much like her celluloid mother that audiences are bound to be fooled. Thank heaven not only for little girls but also for central casting...