Word: dispiritedness
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But it was in another sense that the presidential political weakness was even more hurtful to Republicans. In fact, Dwight Eisenhower wrote a good, constructive record in 1958. Yet the widespread impression remained of a dispirited, drifting Administration. That impression first took real form back in 1957, when Ike hemmed...
"Will They Talk to Me?" In the White House last week, the man in the eye of the storm sat weary and dispirited at his desk. The grudging spark of humor and the sudden flashes of gaiety that he sometimes permits himself were gone. Tom Stephens, the President's...
Missing Gardner. All this was too much for Bung Karno. By now he had taken a fourth wife-a young, lissome divorcee named Hartini-without bothering to divorce Fatmawati, the mother of his five children. Sukarno took off for a tour of the world's capitals, shopping for new...
"I believe in a strong executive," said T.R. "I believe in power; but I believe that responsibility should go with power." Above all else, it was T.R.'s presidential presence-the glint behind spectacles, the mustache, the teeth, the granite jaw, the Gatling-gun voice-that rallied his dispirited...
Human Soil Bank. The appeal of Peanuts lies in its sophisticated melding of wry wisdom and sly oneupmanship. Unlike such funny-page small fry as Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace or Jimmy Ratio's Little Iodine, its characters are disingenuous and uncute. Charlie, whose peanut-bald head...