Word: kennan
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...elbows in dead soldiers without an exit strategy. “Containment” is both a forceful critique of current foreign policy and a prescriptive response to it. Shapiro, a Yale political science professor, argues in favor of renewing the policies of containment first put forth by George Kennan in his historic “Long Telegram”—though as that might lead you to expect, the book often gets wallowed down in the past. The bulk of his argument is that the United States should have used this policy from the start...
...patient abroad if it democratically solved problems at home, something the Soviet Union could not do. After the Soviets launched Sputnik, John F. Kennedy said America's cold war struggle depended on American kids learning science. "Every ... measure ... to improve self-confidence, discipline, moral and community spirit," wrote George Kennan, Truman's head of policy planning, "is a diplomatic victory over Moscow...
...Well, George Kennan lived to be 101, so he must have be doing something right, but I think I would rather have been a French New Wave director, one of the people who were inspired by the American movies of the 1940s and 1950s to reinvent cinema. Students in my course, who have seen a sample of my own early camera-work, know that I might have done great things in that field, given the proper funding...
...lunch with Eliot a few days ago at the club ... On Thursday went to the luncheon given in honour of John Lehmann at the Trocadero ... Lunch in Paris with Denis de Rougemont ... We gave a luncheon for Auden and the Austrian Ambassador ... In Berlin, at luncheon, I met George Kennan again ... Went to lunch with Robert Oppenheimer ... [Guy Burgess] invited me to lunch at his apartment ... Lunched with Cyril (Connolly) at Whites ... Pauline de Rothschild rang and I lunched with her and Philippe at Prunier." There are also dinners with Igor Stravinsky and Edith Sit-well, breakfasts and quick bites...
...arms control, arms negotiations, plans for peace, manuals on how to survive nuclear catastrophes. In the past two or three years, an entire intellectual community has been born around the Bomb, a portable Algonquin Round Table (minus the wit) made up of such people as McGeorge Bundy, George Kennan, Harold Brown, Robert McNamara and several retired military leaders, many of whom were among the policymakers who originally protected the secrecy of the Bomb and who have now gone public with strategic theories and proposals for arms limitations...