Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George & Martha. In a formal statement, Kennedy accused the White House of lying about the proposed deal whereby Kennedy would have remained out of the race if Johnson appointed a high-level commission to revise Viet Nam policy. The Senator confirmed that he discussed such a plan with De-fensejSecretary Clark Clifford and went ahead with his candidacy only after Johnson rejected the idea. However, Kennedy said, the commission plan was not originally his nor first advanced by him; Johnson, in a conversation with Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen had "welcomed" the notion of a commission and asked Sorensen for specific...
...assistant, is the candidate's closest adviser, although to outsiders he seems mainly busied with holding ths Senator's coat and seeing that he gets from one meeting to another. Curtis Gans, 30, a former United Press International reporter, is the chief tactician at the grass-roots level and the most important of the Mc-Carthyites in Wisconsin today. Seymour Hersh, 30, still another former newsman (he covered the Pentagon for the Associated Press), is press secretary, speechwriter-and an unexcelled master of profanity. A score of others do everything from dispersing funds to researching issues, but none...
...Inclination. Like Czechoslovakia, Poland has been due for some top-level changes, but the chance that reforms will automatically come with them is dim. The last influential figure from a never strong liberal wing, Philosophy Professor Leszek Kolakowski, was booted from party membership two years ago. President Edward Ochab, tired and almost blind at 62, is expected to retire in time for the Polish party conference late next fall, and some observers think that Gomulka may lift himself upstairs to the presidency, allowing a younger man to undertake party chairmanship...
Much more is necessary to raise a performance beyond this simple level. The introspective Chopin Ballades demand an affinity for the unique style in which they were conceived. This is a stiff order for a young pianist but he must--through coaching or through other methods of consciousness expansion--steep himself in the nineteenth century romantic tradition. Indjic, did not show sufficient feel for rubato--the subtle expansions and contractions of meter. And he also lacked a discriminating taste for the shifting counterpoints--phrases, fragments of phrases, even single notes--which must be emphasized as well, to project an interesting...
Kennedy, of course, has several powerful friends at the local level. Nassau County Chairman Jack English sways voters living in a densely-populated Long Island suburb of New York City, and Joseph E. Crangle wields the same kind of power over Erie County (including Buffalo). Although they have not officially supported Kennedy, they do not hide their feelings. A strong county chairman has unmatched influence because he--not a United States Senator or Governor--directly controls the lower-level patronage and favor-dispensation which remain the crux of American politics even when the nation...