Word: isaacsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wise Men encompasses this center of influence with vigor and style. Walter Isaacson, the Nation editor of TIME, and Evan Thomas, Washington bureau chief for Newsweek, rely heavily on anecdotes and quotations to convey the nuances of personality and politics. Harriman, son of an American robber baron, was hampered by mumbled diction and a seeming inattention to details. Lovett, who would serve as Secretary of Defense, was a childhood friend of % Harriman's. Acheson, Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953, was more responsible for the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine than the general and President whose names...
...nothing to avert the use of the Bomb. Bohlen, a career man in the Foreign Service, was instrumental in getting the views of his lifelong friend and fellow Ambassador to Moscow George Kennan accepted in Washington. "A curious blend of arrogance and insecurity, haughtiness and self-pity" is how Isaacson and Thomas describe Kennan. Yet they have no doubts about his unmatched foresight. He predicted the Sino- Soviet split and accurately saw that Russia would continue to be a threat because "its perverse paranoia and historical expansionism had been abetted and amplified, but not caused, by the Marxist doctrine." Kennan...
...following speaker, Bob Isaacson, talked about basic ventriloquism, going over the diaphragm and the hard palate, the teeth and the tongue. You can say the letter d without moving your lips, but you cannot say the letter b. Nearly anyone could be a ventriloquist if one's dummy talked like this: "How 'dout a dottle of deer?" Substituting a barely perceptible th sound, Isaacson said "Boston baked beans" without moving his lips, and you could have sworn you heard the b's. People scribbled...
Senior Editor Walter Isaacson, who edited the Special Report, has had ample time to reflect on the drug problem since 1979, when he wrote a TIME cover story on the Colombian cocaine and marijuana connection. Says Isaacson: "The big change is not in drug use, which has come and gone in waves throughout the entire century, but in the public perception of the problem. More and more people are saying, 'This has to stop...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, David Brand, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...