Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only to a Neanderthal mind would these proposals seem radical. They are, on the whole, necessary to the revival of strong government in a country which has suffered too long under a feeble executive leadership and a frequently "me-too" Congress...
Schlesinger termed the major issue of the campaign "the nation's realization that it lacks leadership." He noted that "while there is considerable skepticism and disappointment about Eisenhower's accomplishment, people feel a deep personal sentiment towards...
Eleanor Roosevelt, 74, talked and talked in New York for Averell Harriman, dashed out to Topeka, where she made her comparisons between her husband and the White House's present resident: "We have never lacked greatness but at the moment we lack leadership. Education has been lacking for the chief educator, the President of the United States. It has been...
...need to wait for his police to act before he knew the real criminals: "Every political rabble-rouser is the godfather of these cross burners and dynamiters who sneak about in the dark." Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill: "Let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish to take the law into their own hands...
Lorenzaccio (by Alfred de Musset) launched a three-week visit of France's Theatre National Populaire-a people's theater which under the adventurous leadership of Jean Vilar has become popular indeed. Though French dramas of greater fame-Moliere's Don Juan, Corneille's Le Cid-were to follow it on Broadway. Musset's 124-year-old romantic tragedy made a booming opening gun. For one thing, despite its many-pronged story and far too many scenes, Lorenzaccio has considerable operatic stir, psychological lure and ironic force; for another, in the economical way that this...