Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nice Place." Kosygin set the tone of the first meeting with his first words to Johnson after stepping out of his limousine: "You chose a nice place." And indeed it was. The venue was Holly Bush, a 22-room gingerbread brownstone, vintage 1849, on the rolling, tree-studded campus of Glassboro State College. The residence of College President Thomas ("Dr. Tom") Robinson, the house is as fetchingly old-fashioned inside as out, decorated with 19th century English prints and figured wallpaper. In the small, green-walled library set aside for the leaders' private conversation, the President and the Premier...
...political dinner in Los Angeles, where, perhaps a bit too sanguinely, he told his audience: "It is good to sit down and look a man in the eye and try to reason with him and to have him reason with you. Reasoning together was the spirit of Holly Bush...
...condolence; it was a classic essay in the kind of duplex diplomacy at which the Russians are masters: talking on one level while acting?or failing to act?on another. Despite the noise and despite even the MIGS, the Russians were obviously playing for time. As evidenced at Holly Bush, Kosygin's visit to the U.S. was also at once a holding action and a salvage operation. Longer-range Russian tactics remained unclear?probably to the Russians themselves...
...highly successful first meeting on the personal level?"They enjoyed one another," said one official ?and possibly even eased some of the tensions that had developed since the Middle East went to war June 5, their differences on every critical issue were more clearly etched at Holly Bush than they had been before...
...Strauss personally, the dialogue began 30 years ago in the South American bush. Born in Brussels to middle-class Jewish parents who did not accept their faith or any other, he grew up in France in a posture of skepticism toward traditionalist thought. At the Sorbonne he read for a philosophy degree-"not because I had any true vocation for it, but because I had sampled other branches of learning and detested them...