Word: eisen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reflected Glory. Nor could Kennedy's most persistent critic, Columnist David Lawrence, resist an "I told you so." Wrote he: "Kennedy perhaps wishes he had not been so critical of the Eisen hower Administration a few months ago and probably regrets the demagoguery he put into those campaign speeches. Nobody will deny that Mr. Kennedy has an almost superhuman job on his hands. But he will not win cooperation by alibis attempting to shift responsibility to the press, nor by spending so much of his time at partisan political dinners or in conferences with political bosses." Even New York...
...After Secretary of State Dean Rusk's first press conference, Shannon commented acidly: "Answering approximately 20 questions, he explored the outer reaches of cliche and the higher peaks of platitude. One [reporter] described Rusk's performance as 'an educated man's parody of an Eisen hower press conference...
After 15 years of Truman and Eisen hower, it is a pleasure to have a sophisticated, literate mind in the White House...
...Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) bears little resemblance to the historical figure. According to some historical ac counts, Ivan IV of Russia (1530-84) was a psychopathic sadist who slaughtered thousands of Russians, gleefully assisted at the torture of his enemies, and mur dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin in some areas...