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Again, tutors and tutees will work together by mutual consent, and the department will try to match individuals carefully. The actual nature of the instruction will also be left up to the participants again. Members of the Biology...
Drastic Intervention. Monroe's successors not only upheld his doctrine-they extended it beyond the scope he originally gave to it. In 1845 James K. Polk declared, as the "settled policy" of the U.S., that "no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established upon any part of the North American continent." Far broader was the Theodore Roosevelt extension of the Monroe Doctrine. Down through the 19th century, it was official U.S. policy that the Monroe Doctrine did not bar outside nations from using armed force against Latin American states to punish wrongs...
Allen Drury did two things when he began to make his fortune with Advise and Consent, a fascinating first novel about a fight in the U.S. Senate to reject the President's nominee for Secretary of State. First, he quit the New York Times. Second, knowing a mother lode when he struck one, he began a sequel to the book that has sold 2,350,000 copies in hard covers and paperbacks and been made into a play and a movie. In bulk, A Shade of Difference nearly matches Advise and Consent: 603 pp. v. 616. But in pace...
Terrible Terry. Advise and Consent left the nation dangling in perilous circumstance. The Russians had just landed on the moon and ominously summoned the U.S. to Geneva for a conference. The death of the President had thrust command upon Harley M. Hudson, the harmless nincompoop of a Vice President...
...strength of Advise and Consent was Drury's narrative skill, which played off character against character in sharply focused scenes, and the sharp insider's insight into Washington and the U.S. Senate that provided much of the book's fascination. In A Shade of Difference onetime U.N. Correspondent Drury fails to make the U.N. come alive in the same crackling way, and often mires his story in mawkish melodrama and details so fine that they manage to be tedious rather than interesting. Maybe the U.N. is that way, and Author Drury could not help himself...