Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dour, brusque, blunt to the point of rudeness, Humphrey's private diagnostician is not easy to know or to like. Yet despite the suspicions he arouses as a result of his intimacy with the Democratic candidate, he is probably the most salutary influence within Humphrey's inner circle. "I have no ax to grind," says Berman. "I'm not after a damn thing. I have no intention of trying to become Surgeon General, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, or anything like that. That's why I can talk to the Vice President...
...that the police may be after him, he moves through the upper echelons of Moscow; his fears alternate with moments of euphoric hope, counterpointing the luxurious world around him. Seized and taken to Lyubyanka, in three brilliant matter-of-fact chapters he begins to be stripped down to the inner core of his being. Thus begins the process by which, in Solzhenitsyn's moral order, the most perceptive prisoners have learned to be free...
Potentially strong liberal forces have not gotten together in any meaningful way yet, they desperately need good leadership. McCarthy forces made impressive liberal gains in suburban St. Louis this spring, but have failed to align themselves with the progressive black community leaders in the inner city. Instead they are associated with the old Negro bosses who are on the way out. In Kansas City McCarthyites dumped the last remnants of the Pendergast machine with whom Harry S. Truman got his start a half-century ago. But the McCarthyites have failed to unite with the Kennedy forces and the black community...
...Into the inner courtyard of Prague's Hradcany Castle one morning last week rumbled a long cavalcade of black Tatra limousines. From them stepped Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek, the ministers of his regime and 277 members of the National Assembly. Only a few months ago, these men had gathered in the historic castle to enact the reforms that started Czechoslovakia on its brief but exhilarating attempt to reconcile Communism with human freedoms. Now, under the threat of Soviet invaders, they came to dismantle their own democracy...
...even Grove Press, he claims, refused to print them). Samaras' most celebrated boxes are his huge, walk-in mirrored rooms (TIME, May 3), and his latest one will be a nine-foot-tall tower. An exercise in claustrophobia, it will force visitors to shrink as they climb its inner stairs. When they reach the reflecting ceiling, they will find that it has no exit. "There is an element of threat," admits Samaras...