Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense of international drama that runs through secret meetings in ancient buildings in London's Whitehall, or on Paris' Quai d'Orsay, is lost in the State Department's Room 5106 ("the largest conference room") in Foggy Bottom. Bereft of the vintage attention of exquisitely correct French huissiers, the men of diplomacy get a meat-and-potatoes feeling when they are shown around Washington by polite young men in business suits wearing blue lapel ribbons imprinted USHER...
...Japan Joseph Grew, is a Foreign Service officer who served ably as deputy chief of Mission to Japan (1953-56), as U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1956-58), and sees eye to eye with Virginia-bound Walter Spencer Robertson on the need to base policy on the principle-proved correct again in Tibet-that Red China is "the enemy...
...touches this national nerve of double loyalty and lets it enliven what would otherwise be dreary years of incessant skirmishes intermixed with interminable diplomatic maneuverings. Only the Cavalier and Roundhead legends can give life to it all, and this because, remarkably enough, they prove to be almost as factually correct as they are fabulously colored...
...would like to correct a possible impression that my Lowell Lecture of March 24 was devoted primarily to pronouncements on news of the day. The entire emphasis of that lecture--as of all six--was on an abstract analysis of the role of threats in bargaining and the concept of bargaining power; I did nothing so exciting as "weigh the Berlin crisis," as your headline indicated. As a matter of fact, I would not agree with the opinions attributed to me in your article...
What College Bowl suffers from is a sophomoric strain on the basketball analogy. A referee's shrill whistle signals half time and the commercial. A student audience is encouraged to cheer each correct answer. After Northwestern was defeated by Georgetown a few weeks back, Northwestern students hanged in effigy the quiz team's coach, Dean of Students James Currie McLeod. Mused McLeod: "Who knows-I may wind up like Terry Brennan...