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...Will the marriage last?" mused Bryce Harlow, who will serve Nixon as a White House assistant. "I don't know. They're acting like it will. They are strong men with strong positions, but there is a heavy compulsion on these men -the national interest...
...seems that most of our students are no less self-sacrificing than we, nor do many expect so much selflessness of themselves. I think a more just appraisal than Mr. Alexander's would find large numbers of us doing more in this community than grinding away in Widener. Jackson Bryce Miniprofessor of the Classics, and Resident Tutor in Music, Adams House
...paradox. For months, the candidates have wooed them; for a glorious week, they will stand at the whirling hub of decision. Yet they are widely described as mere tools of the true decision makers. The great scholars of American politics have largely ignored them: neither Tocqueville nor Lord Bryce nor Sir Denis Brogan take them very seriously. Yet these seemingly faceless men and women are now at the focus of national attention...
Louis Heren, chief Washington correspondent for the Times of London, brings this geriatrics report up to date in a brisk spot checkup on the U.S. political system, loosely paralleling the classic study performed in The American Commonwealth (1888) by another sympathetic Englishman, Lord Bryce. Measured by the age of its continuous governing institutions, Heren judges the U.S. to be the second oldest country in the world; only Britain is its senior. Despite its perpetual self-image of newness, the country is really "a mature, almost ancient land...
...Bryce in scholarship, Heren offers considerable journalistic value: he provokes Americans into looking outside the framework of favorite myths. But if Americans are not the impulsive, brash upstarts that they themselves and a good deal of the world have taken them to be, just who are they? A notably patient people, Heren believes, infinitely capable of compromise, whose society is less the product of revolutionary fiat than of constant evolutionary adjustments over the years...