Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This was what the newsmen accompanying Goldwater saw, and this was what they reported in their predictions of defeat. Theirs was a limited vantage point. What they missed was the fact that while Rockefeller carried his organization around with him, Goldwater's, as masterminded by Los Angeles Attorney Bernard Brennan, was much larger, infinitely more zealous, and was hard at work in almost every precinct in the state...
...studies at London's Inner Temple. He also had the money and appetite for fashionable parties in the West End, and could down a magnum of champagne without losing his poise or equilibrium. He was attracted by the ideas of his time, from the Fabian Socialism of Bernard Shaw to the moral relativism of Bertrand Russell and the welfare economics of John Maynard Keynes...
...short of a head-on war with China, and perhaps not even then. But some believe that a neutralized South Viet Nam would encourage North Vietnamese Premier Ho Chi Minh to become a kind of Tito in the shadow of Red China. In one view, expressed by Asian Expert Bernard Fall, Ho Chi Minh is afraid of U.S. air strikes, which could destroy his struggling economy, and if suitably threatened he would accept a neutral, more or less independent South Viet...
...council was withdrawn from circulation because of "errors" in the translation; in fact, the Holy Office objected to the Dutch bishops' defense of the now familiar idea of episcopal collegiality-that is, the bishops' sharing ruling power over the church with the Pope. Rome also informed Bernard Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht that the principal author of the encyclical, the brilliant Dominican speculative theologian Edouard Schillebeeck, would not be acceptable as a theological adviser to the Council's Preparatory Commissions...
...originally liked Yale, but his mother made him stay at home, so he went to City College in Manhattan instead. Then Princeton came to mean a lot when its ex-president, Woodrow Wilson, called him to government duty, and now the letters and other documents chronicling the services of Bernard M. Baruch, 93, to nine U.S. Presidents will go to Princeton. With the Wilson collection, and papers of Old Nassau Grads John Foster Dulles ('08) and James Forrestal ('15), they will form the nucleus of a new Center for Studies in 20th Century Statecraft that eventually will also...