Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartment for the first interview, the poet greeted him with a cool and quizzical hello. But that first interview lasted until 4 o'clock in the morning, beginning in the living room-study of the poet's two-room flat, and going on in the kitchen over caviar, salmon, cheese and red Georgian wine...
...felt like a fighter wearing 16-ounce gloves . . . up against a bare-knuckle slugger who had gouged, kneed, and kicked"--so he writes of his feelings after the "kitchen debate." Of the 1952 campaign he reflects: "The idea of putting Stevenson in the ring with a man like Stalin simply petrified me." The quality the U.S. needs most of in the Cold War is "moral, mental, and physical stamina"; the men who make policy do not require imagination or intelligence so much as "facing up to hard realities." Well-researched, well-briefed, in a word, well-trained, Mr. Nixon battles...
Lowell House's proposal to do away with reliance on the often abominable offerings of the Central Kitchen system, and their evidence that such a scheme may actually save the House some money, has brought Cambridge some of the sweetest tidings in years. It will not be long, one hopes, before this genuinely inspired spark burns in Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop also, and the Central Kitchens system, its pretense at tolerable cuisine, and its myriad indignities are done away with forever...
...ticket in 1952; 3) the Eisenhower heart attack of 1955, when Nixon faced the delicate task of assuming responsibility without appearing to usurp power; 4) the riotous Nixon visit to South America in 1958, which almost ended in his death at the hands of a Caracas mob; Sy the "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev during Nixon's 1959 mission to Moscow, and " 6) the 1960 campaign itself...
...Kitchen? "We're surrounded," said the Chicago Tribune in mock despair. In Teddy's move, the Tribune thought it could sniff the course of U.S. politics for years to come: "President John F. (1961-69), President Robert F. (1969-77), President Edward F. (1977-), and before you know it we are in 1984, with Caroline coming up fast and John F. Jr. just behind her." New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, while noting in a graver vein that dynasties have never had much appeal for U.S. voters, added that "from the standpoint of future Presidential elections, there...