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...Dwight MacDonald and Norman Mailer are traced through checkered careers. The one seems to be taken as representative of the '50's in his withdrawal from politics, the other typical of the Kennedy years in his admiration for the charismatic leader and his well-bred wife who together were to wed culture and politics, or their contemporary analogues, Broadway and Route 128, in an apotheosis of disciplined Power. Mailer's existentialism is in fact not too far from the old notion of "expressive politics" which the New Republic implicitly championed for years: commitment for the sake of commitment, action...
Also a Worry. The White House meetings ranged over scores of questions besides these. At times, as many as 20 people were in the Cabinet Room. The cast of characters changed according to the particular question being considered. At one point, the President talked by telephone with Dwight Eisenhower, filled him in on the talks...
...first such conference since Dwight Eisenhower called one ten years ago. Yet there were major differences -notably in the men assembled to scrutinize the nation's schooling. Eisenhower's conference was dominated by public-school administrators, school-board representatives, and such vested interests as the National Education Association. More in evidence at the Johnson meeting was a new breed of outside innovators, such as Carnegie Corp. President John Gardner who served as chairman; U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel, who does not even hold a graduate degree; and a host of university-oriented reformers, ranging from James B. Conant...
...course his circle was far from completed. In 1948 he was chosen by Illinois' Democratic leaders to run for Governor against Republican Dwight Green, whose administration had been splotched by scandal; Stevenson won by a record 572,000 votes and set about riding close herd over a heavily Republican legislature; in 1951 alone, he vetoed no fewer than 134 bills...
...called the "nauseous nonsense, the pie-in-the-sky appeals to cupidity and greed, the cynical trifling with passion and prejudice and fear, the slander, the fraudulent promises, and the all-things-to-all-men demagoguery." He didn't have much hope that he would win over Dwight Eisenhower. "You know," he said to a friend, "you really can't beat a household commodity-the catchup bottle on the kitchen table...