Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roosevelt, said Groves, was deter mined to prevent a military stalemate in Europe. On Dec. 30, 1944, as the Allied offensive bogged down in the Battle of the Bulge, Groves and War Secretary Henry L. Stimson went to the White House to brief F.D.R. about the progress of the nuclear program...
More remarkable than the extent of his administrative powers and responsibilities is Keppel's achievement, over a few brief years, in shaping Washington's concept of the federal partnership in education, and the success with which he has helped gather lawmakers, politicians and educators into a purposeful alliance that supports the federal role. The key to Keppel's success, says Columbia University Professor of Education Lawrence A. Cremin, is that he is "a man of intellect, but he's not arrogant. He is a political animal in the Aristotelian sense-a man who understands power...
...Tutti Buoni." To great, deafening, farewell cheers, the papal motorcade then whisked to the World's Fair for a brief tour of the Vatican pavilion. There, visibly exhausted, the Pope stared blankly for a while at Michelangelo's Pietd in its unaccustomed setting,* gave his blessing to the modest crowd that braved the night air for a final glimpse of the Pontiff. Then he was hurried back to Kennedy Airport for the TWA flight home-14 hours after his arrival in New York...
...brief, the dating rests on two major pieces of physical evidence. First, the scribe who drew the map and copied the text used a writing style known as Oberrheinische Bastarda, or Upper Rhineland bastard (or cursive) book hand, which is confined to the period 1415-1460. Since the handwriting is in fully developed form and free of accretions from styles that developed later, a date in the 1440s seems most likely. Second, the parchment and paper used can be traced to the same period, and a unique spectacled head of a bull used as a watermark on the paper shows...
...Carre's straining for effect becomes most obvious when he writes dialogue or describes the relations between people. The early scenes seem almost cinematically brief and selective, and in the manner of a bad movie director, Le Carre tries to end most of them with a significant detail: "The Minister did not look up as they came in." "He walked slowly, like an old athlete on an old track." The portentousness is obvious, even out of context. The Spy was refreshingly pessimistic and unglamorous, but in mining the same vein further, Le Carre only comes up with heavy irony...