Word: kennan
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MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Starting its 20th year on the air, Meet the Press plays inquisitive host to George F. Kennan, foreign affairs expert and former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and to Yugoslavia...
MEMOIRS: 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan. 583 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...many Americans under 30, the cold war seems like a scare story concocted by the older generation. But it was all too real, and no one knows it better than George Kennan. He also knows that the issues underlying the conflict have not disappeared, despite the fact that the Communist monolith has splintered into a "Humpty Dumpty" that "will not and cannot be reassembled." For the U.S., the continuing problem is how to face Communism without being either fatuously optimistic about coexistence or excessively belligerent in opposition. In dealing with that problem, Kennan has often been out of step with...
...this dry, dispassionate account, Kennan, now a member of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, makes clear the irony of his career: he was in official disfavor first for being "too harsh" toward Russia, then for being "too soft." He was burned in effigy by Communist-led mobs in Rio de Janeiro during a Latin American tour in 1950, and burned figuratively by right-wing critics in the U.S. during the decade that followed...
Before her arrival, however, Kennan had a few words to say. Svetlana Stalina, he said, is not a " 'defector' in the usual cold war sense." Rather, she is a person "whose interests are literary and humane. She loves her country and hopes, with her writing and her activity outside Russia, to bring benefit to it, and not harm...