Word: hymans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some are ill-equipped to influence political decisions in the right directions. Some risk making ecology more of a passing fad than a permanent force in U.S. life. Nevertheless, Americans can expect to hear many more expert warnings about the damage they are doing to their environment. Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover has described ecology as "the key science for correctly assessing the negative aspects of technology." And the new Jeremiahs are right in the spirit of the old: "I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered...
...WORLD! In addition to perpetrating the same crimes of manipulation and objectification he so self-righteously criticizes, Mr. Collins and his group have engaged in dishonest, deceptive and counter-revolutionary acts as distributing a highly inflammatory critique of the German Ideology--a book they had not even read! Eddie Hyman...
...Sidney Hyman, University of Chicago, author of The Politics of Consensus: "Marshal Joffre once said that it takes 16,000 men to train one major general. And it often takes many more casualties to train a President. But when you look at Ike's presidency from the perspective of time, lots of things the days hide are revealed by the years. You see that there were surprisingly few casualties required to train Eisenhower. There's nothing dramatic about the kind of work that Eisenhower did, so he suffers by comparison with the trombones-and-drums kind of President...
...opinion of Historian Sidney Hyman (The Politics of Consensus), Nixon's new role as a conciliator is another example of the "politics of reverse images," which changes many men who enter the White House. F.D.R., the aristocrat, became known, for example, as the man of the people. Dwight Eisenhower, the general, became the peacemaker. Richard Nixon, the abrasive partisan, has-so far anyway-been neither abrasive nor partisan. Though it is too early to speculate whether Nixon will be a good or bad President-it is probably impossible to be a mediocre President today-it is not too early...
...formalist who administered but did not lead the country. Lincoln was the heroic leader whose stewardship was passionate, argumentative and highly political. Grover Cleveland was a mixture of the two, not moving forward at a rapid rate, but not stepping very far backward either, expending just enough energy, in Hyman's words, "to maintain the existing kinetic equilibrium...