Word: edited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been Malraux's thesis that only lately has man been able to peer into the darkest crannies of history to see his art as a whole. This volume is the first of some 40 that Malraux and Georges Salles, former director of the National Museums of France, will edit under the title, The Arts of Mankind. The panoramic view of the human imagination should do much to bear out Malraux's thesis. It promises to be the celebrated "Museum Without Walls" reduced to paper...
...writers. "If your work deserves statues," he wrote, "your conduct merits chains." Voltaire wrote to friends: "The King is an exceptional man-very attractive at a distance." The pair resumed their friendship later, since Frederick, an incorrigible scribbler of poor verse, could not bear to have anyone but Voltaire edit and polish his poems. As Author Nicolson succinctly puts it, "The literary vanity of soldiers passes human comprehension...
...political history of the Irish in Massachusetts while studying for a master's degree in history at Harvard under Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. who called him "the most brilliant student I ever had." Then he sailed a few miles down the Charles River to M.I.T. to help edit the letters of Theodore Roosevelt under Historian Elting E. Morison, won his reporter's ribbon in 1950 as a State Department legman for pugnacious. New-Dealing, syndicated Columnist Robert S. Allen, with whom he co-authored The Truman Merry-Go-Round. A year later, he moved to the Post...
...some are unhappy with both ideas: Senators Case, Cooper and Javits, Representative Lindsay, Governor Rockefeller. It is not a very large group, but it has its disciples, among whom are the students who edit Advance, a "Journal of Political Thought." Volume One, Number One has just arrived at the newsstands, at a moment that ought to be very appropriate for such a magazine to appear, but happens not to be. This is the worst of times to begin attacking liberal orthodoxy, for Kennedy's glamor has not yet worn off and the attack is as a result utterly unconvincing...
...issue because it agreed with what I think. This is partly true; but, much more, you hit every good sidelight on the head, as well as describing the broad flow of the election itself. To do this as shrewdly and entertainingly as you did is one thing; to collect, edit, write, print and distribute the whole thing in little over a day is tremendous...