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...gain me votes or lose them?" But since then, various activities of McCarthy have been criticized by Eisenhower's Vice-President, his Foreign Aid Director, and his Secretary of Defense. His political worth has been questioned by no less a man than Chairman Hall of the Republican National Committee. Insofar as the publication of the Cohn-Schine charges were the turning point in McCarthy's national popularity, they too, it turns out, were the result of a deliberate decision by the White House. It is impossible to view this string of events without concluding, to borrow a favorite expression from...
William S. White, Congressional reporter for the New York Times, followed Taft and his influence for six years. Now he has tried to set down the whole story. The result is only disappointing insofar as it never gets behind the man to the driving attitudes of the section he represented. White details the well-known Taftian qualities: the bluntness, integrity, intellectual forcefulness and parliamentary skill which made him the Republicans most respected partisan. Recounting Taft's Republicans' most respected partisan. But the actions and attitudes of the Republican Old Guard, the core of Taft's national influence, emerged from...
...Insofar as he knew anything, Lord Lucan knew that someone had blundered, and he would have liked to discuss the matter with Lord Cardigan. But the two peers were not only rank amateurs in war; for 30 years they had scarcely exchanged a word. So now Lord Lucan coldly ordered his brother-in-law "to advance down the . . . Valley with the Light Brigade." To which Lord Cardigan replied equally coldly: "Certainly, sir; but allow me to point out . . . that the Russians have a battery ... on our front, and batteries and riflemen on both sides...
Immortality. "God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us ... Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the Divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality, reducing the question of whether his individuality survives death of the body to the estate of an irrelevancy. His true destiny as co-creator in the universe is his dignity and his grandeur...
...State Department attitude toward academic consultants may have serious consequences, Schwartz warned. "Insofar as the government restricts the number of people advising it, it is harming itself," he said...