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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Personality: Oddly, younger Russians admire the sober Kosygin more than they do Brezhnev. Correct, levelheaded, with a taste for anonymity and a dull, if cultured, public speaking voice, Kosygin emphasizes moderation and maintenance of peace. He is a widower-his wife Klavdia died of cancer last month-and has a married daughter, Liudmila Gvishiani. For all his drab public façade, Kosygin is capable of sharp, dry wit. On a visit to Britain last February, while dining with Tory Leader Ted Heath, he observed: "It is less fun to be in opposition in some countries than in others...
...view of events, as a member of the government and as a backbencher, is middle-distance only, and so not always in perfect focus. The editor's footnotes correct the record where Sir Har old's information was faulty, or where a dinner anecdote is constructed out of whole tablecloth. But the diarist's perceptions of people, from Churchill to De Gaulle to a rising Tory named Harold Macmillan, are always close-up and marvelously crisp and sharp. And the mood of an embattled nation is mirrored in all its nuances through the changing fortunes...
...this day, Mrs. Bunting thinks that the hunger strikers were disgruntled that they lost in the lottery. They, however, pointed to the girls in their number who had won places and reminded her that their concern with apartment living antedated the lottery. The strikers are probably correct in defending their long-range interest in the housing issue, but Mrs. Bunting is also justified in thinking that there is a good deal of self-interest involved. "The basic problem between us is not that I didn't understand what you wanted, but that you didn't get your...
...vote" politics. Many students, especially members of Students for a Democratic Society, feel that the events of the past year indicate that the two-party mechanism is incapable of dealing with the war. And aside from the fact that 1968 (to say nothing of 1966) may prove them correct, the inability of the war to have the same effect on voting patterns as television images and food costs has driven students to unconventional forms of political action...
Detail can be a useful device in reconstructing history, particularly when it is used to correct the astigmatism of adulation that most contemporary historians bring to bear on their subjects. George Washington's ivory false teeth; Gladstone's predilection for reforming London streetwalkers; Lenin's fondness for a Franco-Russian woman during his pre-Revolution exile in Paris: all these trivial addenda lend a sense of humanity to the men who made history and help relate them to the banality of history as it is lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives...