Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most sensible and sensitive statesman, Nyerere had assiduously cultivated unity in his own country, preached it to the continent at large. His immense popularity at home had been based not on wild promises of a golden future but on a clear-eyed appraisal of the hard work that lay ahead. His own sober determination to get on with the job of building a nation seemed to have communicated itself to his people, largely through his motto, "Uhuru na kazi"-"Independence and work." Then, in a sudden, senseless instant, Nyerere's carefully woven fabric of stability ripped down the middle...
...loopholes is that it is a superb popularizaton. The term "popularization" has come to have an overtone of condescension that is often, as in this case, unjust. A good popularization takes facts or interpretations already known to the experts and makes them comprehensible and interesting to the lay reader. If the subject dealt with is of any importance, the popularizer performs an invaluable function--war is too important to be left to the generals...
...Negro" also accounts for the attitude toward the "white liberal." "Naturally, the Negro wants to lay down the conditions and call the shots, something done for him by the white liberal in an earlier day. His friendship is not spurned but merely held in abeyance, giving us both time to think over what is going on inside and outside of us. We need a more adequate formulation of the problems we both face...
...months, while Woodrow Wilson lay grievously ill in his White House bedroom, his wife Edith was his only contact with the outside world. Gene Smith, 34, a Washington freelance reporter, who once worked for the New York Post, spent months burrowing through the huge mass of Wilson papers in the Princeton University library...
Only Wilson's private secretary, Joe Tumulty, his doctor, Admiral Cary Grayson, and Edith knew his true condition. For five months Wilson lay flat on his back. His wife had to read to him. If a document needed his signature, his wife guided his trembling hand. His face was set in a senseless smile. At times, he would cry inconsolably. In contrast to the almost embarrassingly candid reports on Eisenhower's physical condition, Wilson's entourage of doctors constantly issued bland, reassuring medical bulletins...