Word: bryce
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Taking a long, hard look at "the toughest job on earth," Burns decides that things have never been better. Since James Bryce wrote in the 1880's about "why great men are not chosen President," Burns explains, times have changed. With the possible exception of Warren G. Harding, he contends, all of the twentieth-century's Chief Executives have been great men one way or another. In the Presidency, he says, the United States has created not only the best possible institution for sustaining and improving American democracy, but also a system of "executive government" which all nations...
...Larry's choosing and, mostly, at Larry's request. With an expanded corps of operatives-five men for floor work, twelve women researchers and secretaries-O'Brien has shown unprecedented agility in spanning the hazardous chasm between the Hill and the White House-maintaining what Bryce Harlow, President Eisenhower's legislative man, called "an ambulatory bridge across a constitutional gulf...
Dick Appleby and Davis, the second combination for Harvard, settled their games to whip Westcott and Nelson, 8-6, 6-0. Benjamin and Kileff (three) also had a slow start. But they had a slow finish as well, bowing to Dunlop and Bryce Appleton in marathon contest...
...captain Bryce Appleton, who won to last year, met his match this year as Terry Robinson (three) dazzled and the gallery with a complete of shots. Twice he baffled with the "Philadelphian," a tricky which the ball ends up going to the back wall. Robinson...
...amiable Americanolopist-at-large who has exhaustively studied the U.S. past and present, has spent years working and traveling through the land, and has written some of the most perceptive books about the Republic (The American Character, Government of the People) by any British author since Lord Bryce. In this discursive, diverting collection of essays, Brogan discusses the Civil War, Henry Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower. He is surprisingly tolerant of such institutions as the freeway, perhaps overgenerous in ascribing to U.S. foreign policy a kind of global Good Samaritanism. But Brogan also avuncularly warns that from Africa...