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Trying to upgrade Stanton is itself a pretty formidable job. There has never been a good, balanced biography of the man, but the standard view among U.S. historians leaves him with low marks for political candor and loyalty, high scores for arrogance and dissimulation. Pratt's Stanton is not apt to change the historians' minds overnight, but he has written a spirited, readable defense of his man that should leave the pros and the antis agreeing on at least one thing: stout Unionist Stanton was a whale of a Secretary of War, who probably did as much...
...Romance is for bobbysoxers," she declares, and wards off the amatory Holden by telling him "You're not passionate, you're just hungry." A moment later, she announces kissing to be fun and proceeds to enjoy it. And yet, whether her sophistication is educated naivete, or her childlike candor utter sophistication (one is never quite sure which), she is so fresh, pure and enchanting as to completely disarm Holden, Niven and her audience. Niven, the rake redeemed, tells her that every playboy has an innate respect for innocence. Miss McNamara is acutely conscious of the irony and humor of this...
...increase of talk about sex after World War I, public and printed discussion was accepted only gradually. As late as the '30s the New York Times refused ads for Ideal Marriage, by a highly respectable Dutch physician, Theodoor H. Van de Velde, who spoke of sex with great candor but also with an almost romantic reverence No single event did more for open discussion of sex than the Kinsey report, which got such matters as homosexuality, masturbation, coitus and orgasm into most papers and family magazines...
...election, Kip's Changing Times was in the mail with a cover story entitled "What Will Dewey Do?" and blaring its "beat" in full-page ads (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948 et seq.). This massive blooper sent the circulation of all the Kiplinger publications plummeting. With characteristic candor, Kip admitted that "I made the mistake." With equally characteristic vigor (staffers estimate that he works as much as 70 or 80 hours a week), Kip set out to repair the damage. Today a new, ten-story office building in Washington houses the Kiplinger publications and a staff of 315. Changing Times...
...would we tolerate the presence of a known Communist on our Faculty, we are convinced that since the true nature of Communism became apparent to them some years ago, they have been free of any sympathy for it and have dissociated themselves completely from it. They have spoken with candor about their past activities and we are convinced that they are teachers of integrity and loyalty...