Word: hawkish
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More than Pollyanna. Rostow is distrusted by many for his hawkish attitudes and derided even within the Administration as an expounder of outspoken and endless optimism to a President who craves good news. Rostow does see through rather rosy lenses. He has said: "We're closer to an era of real global peace than any time since 1914." On Face the Nation, he said bluntly of the Communist campaign in South Viet Nam: "They have been tactically defeated." Having once referred to John Kennedy's success in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as "the Gettysburg of global civil...
...moderate wing of the Unified Buddhist Church, opened the week by calling for passive resistance instead of rioting. Then, as if to convince the U.S. that his campaign was directed not at the war effort but only against the oppressions of Ky (himself a Buddhist), Tarn Chau issued a hawkish manifesto opposing any peace conference as a "surrender to the Viet Cong." He also paid a surprise visit to American Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...
Babe stalks the fairway with a conscious sense of theater. She flips king-size cigarettes into the air and catches them nonchalantly in her mouth, then lights her match with her fingernail. Her hawkish, sun-toughened face is frozen for the most part in a thin-lipped mask, but she knows when to let go a wisecrack. When one of her tremendous drives sails out of bounds, she turns to the crowd and explains, "I hit it straight but it went crooked...