Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boiled over-U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn ("Tommy") Thompson was in Washington for top-level consultations on U.S.-Russian relationships. He met lengthily in the White House with President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, State Secretary Dean Rusk, and three of his predecessors in Moscow: Averell Harriman, George Kennan and Charles Bohlen. The question of a Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting came up-and the consensus was that it might be worthwhile. Thompson returned to Russia with a Kennedy letter expressing hope for a meeting, possibly in late spring, in a neutral European city. Thompson delivered the letter to Khrushchev...
...China will permanently alter the Russian future, in Kennan's view: "People who have only enemies don't know what complications are; for that, you have to have friends; and these the Soviet government, thank God, now has." Kennan hopefully thinks that, as a modern reincarnation of the murderous Ivan the Terrible, Stalin may have immunized the Soviet state against Stalinism. He believes that Khrushchev is the effect, and not the cause, of "the thaw...
...Away Absolutes. In general, Kennan is brilliant in his criticism of the unconditional surrender viewpoint, the belief in summit conferences, and similar fetishes of U.S. policy. He is considerably less convincing in his case for the relatively "moderate" Russian line, and there seems to be a distinct danger that belief in such moderation could become the kind of inflexible tenet that Kennan himself considers so dangerous. The sum of his advice to the U.S. is to keep talking to the Russians while watching and waiting -but he never suggests what to watch and to wait for. He merely pleads over...
Restraint also marked the music and performance of Kent Kennan's Night Solilquy whose small scale manages to save it from cliched post-romanticism. Senturia's reserve eliminated the occasional triteness of the orchestral part, but on the other hand it weakened the score's build-up to a flute trill. Alex Ogle provided one of the really moving points in the evening with his supple runs and dynamic shadings...
Although the four pieces span only a half-century in time, they contrast greatly in style. While the Mahler songs express a profound disillusionment, the Bloch and Ravel struggle to retain vitality by assimilating new elements--jazz and modality--and the Kennan by Restricting its own scope...