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...course. President John F. Kennedy ’40 was adored across the world. There are stories that still won’t die about tiny huts in Latin America that had two pictures on the wall—one of Kennedy, the other of the pope. Dwight D. Eisenhower was widely hailed as a master diplomat and conciliator, not least by Europeans. Even Ho Chi Minh based the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence on the American model...
...that he can always jump over it. But the question is, does he deliberately contribute to this underestimation? I think he probably does, and I imagine he does so in much the same way as a Republican predecessor did who was also underestimated. Dwight Eisenhower was roundly derided by the liberal intelligentsia as a Mr. Malaprop, a golf-playing, crony-loving dim bulb. But Stephen Ambrose, in his classic biography of Eisenhower, describes how Ike deliberately mangled the language to put reporters off the track or to get them to think that he didn't fully comprehend the issues...
...Dwight Fee is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College in Vermont who specializes in gender studies. He spoke to TIME.com Wednesday...
...Dwight Fee: This is my hunch: This is a pretty conservative time for gay and lesbian life, with lots of exceptions. I had my students read an article by Jeffrey Weeks, talking about how a lot of straight couples are breaking up and having a hard time keeping it together in a de-traditionalizing world. At the same time, I think a lot of gay and lesbian couples are rediscovering family. Particularly among lesbian couples, there is a new fervor around adoption and kids (gay men too, but on a smaller scale). There's a new kind of desirability...
...liked the idea of being somewhat irreverent with this institutional, quasi-industrial, Everyman material," Stearns explains. "And because it's made from cork dust, it has a surprisingly pliable plushness." Along with marketing partner M. Dwight Freeman, he launched Westling Design, offering his durable, handmade creations in bold grid, dot and zigzag patterns that recall art by Mondrian, Kandinsky and Escher. They're not cheap--priced at around $40 per sq. ft., a 6-ft. by 8-ft. area rug costs nearly $2,000. But just think of all those hours you'll save on vacuuming...