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Although he has offered a very feasible explanation for the dilemma of Massachusetts, at one point Richardson carries his thesis too far. "Where political careers are built on favors and rewards, recriminations and reprisals," he writes, "it is natural that the political careerist should attach only secondary importance to the merits of issues. Instead of expertness in municipal finance or public transportation, he is more apt to acquire expertness in determining whether a given back calls for scratching or the knife...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: The Genial Grafter | 10/7/1961 | See Source »

...student who ranks first in his class may be genuinely brilliant. Or he may be a compulsive worker or the instrument of domineering parents' ambitions or a conformist or self-centered careerist who has shrewdly calculated his teachers' prejudices and expectations and discovered how to regurgitate efficiently what they want. Or he may have focused narrowly on grade-getting as compensation for his inadequacies in other areas, because he lacks other interests or talents or lacks passion and warmth or normal healthy instincts or is afraid of life. The top high school student is often, frankly, a pretty dull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Dean Bender's Valedictory Message | 10/2/1961 | See Source »

...recommendation for federal subsidies for passenger lines. New Chairman Joseph C. Swidler of the Federal Power Com mission, describing himself as "consumer-minded," says that he will cut natural-gas rates even if customers do not petition for reduction. Groans one Western corporation chief about the choice of Careerist Paul Dixon to head the Federal Trade Commission: "Kennedy appointed a career prosecutor to the job of judging the cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: The Wary Allies | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

George Frost Kennan, 56-will go to Belgrade as Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Onetime Ambassador to Moscow (1952) and longtime student of Communism and Russia, Kennan singlehanded did much to awaken the U.S. to the dangers of postwar Soviet imperialism, authored the Truman Administration's "containment" policy. Careerist Kennan was shunted into exile (to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) by John Foster Dulles in 1953. In 1957 he flirted with "disengagement," i.e., neutralization of Germany" and the disarming of NATO, as a means of reaching a settlement with the Russians. No less a person than his ex-boss, Dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Two Cheers for Diplomacy | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Longtime Careerist George Kennan, whose tough talk made him persona non grata to the Kremlin and whose "containment" policies made him persona non grata to the Dulles-era State Department, will step out of seven years of political exile and go to Yugoslavia-if, as expected, Marshal Tito will accept him. Already packing his bags for India is Harvard Economist John Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society. He will replace Ellsworth Bunker, who, as an able diplomat and devoted Democrat, is in line for another top ambassadorship, most likely to Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ambassadors? | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

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