Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another columnist in good graces is William S. White, a Lyndon Johnson apologist for many years. Though Washingtonians expected White's presidential source to run dry after L.B.J. left, he has won the Administration's approval with continued attacks on "knee-jerk liberals"-a phrase that he contributed to the language...
...written by people on the liberal side because they are more articulate. People like Schlesinger and Galbraith. But our libraries must express-clearly and openly-both sides." Finding writers on the other side, however, is not always easy. Recently Shakespeare fretted: "Why can't we get a good conservative like Richard Kerr to do some writing for us?" Assistants searched diligently, but could find no Richard Kerr; Shakespeare had meant Conservative Author Russell Kirk, the neo-Burkean scholiast...
...poured on without undermining the agency's own credibility. The Voice of America has always been most effective when it offered straight news, including U.S. criticism of the U.S. As Edward R. Murrow, most distinguished of USIA directors, once said: "You must tell the bad with the good. We cannot be effective in telling the American story abroad if we tell it only in superlatives...
...complex' will torpedo the talks. In Helsinki, Soviet newsmen continually ask Americans, 'Who has Nixon's ear?'" Some Americans suspect that the Soviets are deliberately playing up their distrust of the Nixon Administration. Their object, according to this reasoning, is to force Washington to prove good faith by granting concessions greater than last week's renunciation of bacteriological warfare (see THE NATION...
...result of a 1968 protest by a group of German noncoms who complained that such pompous jawbreakers as "Jawohl, Herr Oberstleutnant" were undemocratic. The proposed form of address ("Jawohl, Oberstleutnant") is hardly casual, but it has caused grumbling among some traditionalists. The brass generally regard it as a good idea. Nor is it unprecedented. Hitler long ago banned Herr in his infamous SS corps, not out of a sense of egalitarianism but elitism-to set it apart from the rest of the German forces...