Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Adams is brusque and businesslike, Persons is completely amiable, can always find time for the human touch. Where Adams-by virtue of his four years in the New Hampshire Statehouse -is "Governor" to all but a few close associates, Persons is "Jerry" to nearly all Washington, "Burt" to his family, and "Slick" to old Army friends. (There is a dispute about whether the "Slick" came from the stuff he put on his hair or from the smooth way he handled Congressmen as an Army legislative liaison man.) Where Adams was President Eisenhower's closest professional colleague, Major General...
...forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross.... Before the end, one began to pray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force. Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy, the dynamo was not so human as some, but it was the most expressive...
Political Career. Named the republic of Lebanon's first minister to Washington and delegate to the U.N.'s founding conference in San Francisco, he helped draft the U.N. Covenants on Human Rights, won a name in the U.S. as "the good Malik" to distinguish him from Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik. Returning in 1955 to his Beirut university post, he was called back to public life as President Chamoun's Foreign Minister after the Suez crisis, charged with carrying out a policy that allied Lebanon more closely with the West than ever before. Though...
...rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket and tickle my belly button"). The geek (lowest operator on the lot, a man who pretends to eat live animals) tore the head off a live chicken and ripped...
...Cautious Heart is British Novelist Sansom's fifth novel (among the others: The Loving Eye). It is sage, funny, benign and stamped with Sansom's special mastery of situations in which sex, humor and sympathy fight for supremacy in a human battle that never ends...