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...flaws in his organization. The Republican nominee kept silent, supplying neither the control nor the inspiration that could have soldered together the splitting elements which supported him. Shaddeg leaves the impression that Goldwater would have obediently read anything his speechwriters handed him-indicating that he possessed a powerful general credo but nothing concrete on which to built a winning campaign...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Leadership and Landslides: Barry in 1964 | 9/30/1965 | See Source »

Westward, Ho! the commonplace was endowed with the transcendental values; the primeval forest became a refuge for reflection and repose. Both attitudes became enshrined in the American litany, and even today te preservation of America's natural beauty is a key credo of all conservationists. what gave vision to this concept was the work of such artists as Thomas Cole of the Hudson River school. Cole, as Poet Bryant rhapsodized, painted "pictures which carried the eye over scenes of wild grandeur peculiar to our country, over our aerial mountain tops with their mighty growth of forest never touched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The National Quest | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...Damage Without Conquest." President Johnson never let up in his patient efforts to explain to the U.S., as well as to the Communists, his credo for Viet Nam. In a carefully prepared speech before 150 members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in the White House East Room-his tenth foreign policy utterance in two weeks-the President said, "We know, as our adversaries should also know, that there is no purely military solution in sight for either side. We are ready for unconditional discussions. Most of the non-Communist nations of the world favor such unconditional discussions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Confident in His Course | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

This nihilistic trio proceeds to torment and destroy Sigfrid's guest-for-the-night, a gentle deviate dressed in a dress. Of course, the playwright is not going to let this poor fellow immolate himself on the fence without giving the audience his maudlin credo: "Shakespeare, Florence [the city in Italy], someone in the park. That's what I believe in." Alert the park department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Juvenilia in a Fright Wig | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...many places it was not clear whether you were describing Lampoon members or the crowd which gathered. I cannot speak for the crowd but no Lampoon member was drunk. For what it's worth only one had an impeccably dressed date, and none has a credo which allows no room for commitment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAMPOON REPLITS | 4/21/1965 | See Source »

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