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Though the Georgetown cocktail circuit buzzes almost weekly with rumors that the Secretary of State is on his way out, Lyndon Johnson has always deeply respected the bland, imperturbable Rusk, feels a personal kinship with him because of his Georgian drawl and tenant-farm origins. "He is No. 1 in the Cabinet," said Johnson, when Rusk came under attack last summer in Arthur M. Schlesinger's history of the Kennedy Administration, "and he is No. 1 with...
...classic university campus is a grouping of quaint Gothic or red brick Georgian buildings adrift on a rolling meadow of greensward. But the exploding college population of the U.S. demands less casual and rustic solutions. In the Chicago metropolitan area alone, there are 150,000 college students. By 1980, estimates the University of Illinois, there will be 568,000 questing applicants. To meet this need, the university desperately needed a new campus, one that would be big, modern and accessible to city dwellers...
...advisors. He plays with them. He is happy with half-men around him. They make touching and funny animal sounds. He alone talks Russian. One after another, his sentences like horseshoes! He pounds them out. He always hits the nail, the balls. After each death, he is like a Georgian tribesman, putting a raspberry in his mouth...
...days later, the Georgian tribesman in the Kremlin, who was known to like raspberries, put a ripe one in his mouth. Betrayed by one of the writers in Pasternak's parlor, Mandelstam was arrested on Stalin's personal order and banished to Siberia. His poetry was suppressed and is still almost entirely unknown in the Soviet Union, while in the West his reputation has been obscured by trite translations...
...Columbia for his father's services, and the family moved to the Georgian-style brick house in Cambridge where his mother still lives. The house overflowed with books, and Arthur tried to devour them all. His father saw nothing unusual in that; he claimed to have read 598 books himself by the time he was 14. But others considered Arthur something of a prodigy. "You could picture him sitting on his father's knee enunciating truths about Populism," says Novelist Mary McCarthy, a longtime friend...