Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRIUMPH OR TRAGEDY: REFLECTIONS ON VIETNAM, by Richard N. Goodwin. One of the young brain-stormers for President Kennedy and, until recently, for President Johnson, Goodwin examines U.S. policy in Viet Nam in a way that is often critical but concludes that the U.S. must commit whatever force is needed to clear the guerrillas from the countryside...
...voting Rights Act and abolition of the poll tax. Negro precincts and the largest metropolitan areas voted heavily against the Byrd candidates. Harry Byrd Sr., 79, was spared the bad news: on primary day he lay in a deep coma at his Berryville estate, suffering from a malignant brain tumor...
Today, 300 years after his death, a recent critical biography -by the U.S.'s most venerable art historian, Walter Friedlaender, 93, sums up Poussin's continuing appeal. One conclusion is that his frankly intellectual art is just as much a visible feast as it is brain food...
...premise is finally revealed: without telling Andrews, physicist Newman plans to stage a mock defection to East Berlin to pry a formula from the brain of a Communist physicist, a formula necessary for the completion of Newman's own missile project. It becomes apparent that Hitchcock will use the nightmare world of East Berlin to test the lovers. Like many of his recent films, Torn Curtain is essentially a romantic character study, a realization that adds to the excellence of the first half of the film...
Dick Goodwin, of Boston, Tufts, and Harvard Law School, was one of President Kennedy's young brain-stormers. Not yet 30, reputed to be as eloquent as the peerless Ted Sorensen but faster with his ghostwriting pen, he turned out the basic draft of J.F.K.'s famed Alliance for Progress speech. Later, L.B.J. tapped him for help in composing the even more famed Great Society address...