Word: callowness
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...title refers to a comment from Henry James that fairly summed up his autocratic style of leadership as he tore through opposition—foreign and domestic—to achieve what he considered the only moral outcomes. Opposition, such as he saw at Harvard, was lazy and callow: “Those who remain on the sidelines he saw as cowards, and consequently as personal enemies...
Leaming depicts John Kennedy as a man who made a bumpy political journey from ruthless opportunist (after the model of his father) to a man who had "found himself morally at last" under the influence of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. When Kennedy's callow self-assurance first foundered after the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961, Leaming writes, Jackie stepped in, using her social skills and talent for imagemaking to wrap his presidency in an aura of maturity and dignity that it did not yet possess...
...that sends Valjean back to prison, his haggling with the inn-keeper to win Cosette?s freedom, the final confrontation with Javert and his last words to his adopted daughter - all are realized with an enthralling depth and immediacy. "Purely as a professional achievement, this is breathtaking," writes Simon Callow, in "Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu," a biography that contains the most detailed analysis I?ve found of the radio work. "Welles at twenty-two produced a show that could rival any by the most seasoned practitioner...
...worried that the medicine will be too harsh. Indeed, some analysts predict that this PM won't be around long. "Koizumi is trying single-handedly to take on the Old Guard of the Liberal Democratic Party and one way or another, he's going to get knifed," says Sean Callow, a currency strategist with IDEAglobal...
...worried that the medicine will be too harsh. Indeed, some analysts predict that this PM won't be around long. "Koizumi is trying single-handedly to take on the Old Guard of the Liberal Democratic Party and one way or another, he's going to get knifed," says Sean Callow, a currency strategist with IDEAglobal...