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...Africa, however, he said, the word "nationalism" has been stretched to cover new meanings. It is, he went on, "an amalgam of three ingredients: loyalty to a race, loyalty to a culture, and a passionate distrust of foreign influence in any form...
Toughness & Charm. Rossiter concedes Hamilton's long distrust of democracy; he does not try to justify Hamilton's disturbingly petty role at the Constitutional Convention (though he reminds readers that one famed snarl attributed to Hamilton-"Your people, sir, is a great beast"-is apocryphal). Rossiter concentrates instead on Hamilton's role in the ratification and first implementation of the Constitution...
...death of the press." But at the same time, said Rowan, too many newsmen are "scoop conscious" and "far more concerned about their reputations than about how well informed the American public is." When the House Subcommittee on Government Information criticized Rowan as "an official with an admitted distrust for the people's right to know," Rowan called the committee report "maliciously misleading," and added: "The public indeed has a right to know-in this case a right to know more of the truth than this subcommittee saw fit to give...
...knowledge and a delight in conveying it to others. A complex, lonely, compassionate man, he believed with Merlyn: "The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting...
...they did, and in each case the method of the search is itself part of the process of understanding. Both strive for a precise, detailed reconstruction of the circumstances surrounding an action: both operate on the assumption that the patience of the investigator will bring its appropriate reward...both distrust the ready explanation that springs first to mind. The connection between the two seems obvious, but it has only recently been explicitly recognized...