Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bundy's own response to the problems he has met as Dean has been generally well received by his Faculty. "His is not an unrelated academic intelligence," a friend remarked. "He perceives and works with facts and makes them move." Some, of course, find fault with him for his hardness, particularly in his control over appointments, but others see a very warm and human man beneath the facade of detatchment required by his post, "a position that requires hard judgements in order to defend the University from mediocrity," according to one Housemaster...
Instead, he worked in medieval history under Professor Haskins, and in 1922 started teaching as a section man in Haskins' old History I course. He spent the next three years in Europe on a fellowship, and in Paris in 1925 he met his wife. Their marriage gave rise to many rumors at Radcliffe to the effect that he had married one French wife and divorced two other, but the gossip was spiked when his wife turned out to be an American...
...Positive Side. When the 1956 campaign became the job to do, Richard Nixon went about it characteristically. Within 48 hours after the Republican National Convention adjourned in San Francisco, he met in Los Angeles with a group of friends, e.g., California's Republican Congressmen Bob Wilson and Patrick Hillings, to work out policy, strategy and details. While some Republicans urged him to repeat his searing attacks of 1952, Nixon decided that, as a spokesman for the Administration in power, he would pitch his campaign largely on the positive side, outlining gains the U.S. has made under Dwight Eisenhower (buried...
...political campaign rolled to its climax, the President of the U.S. was a calm and confident candidate. Wherever his plane or train had carried him across the land, Ike, had found full crowds, enthusiastic faces. Wherever Democrats had raised an issue to badger him, he met it quietly, succeeded (so his supporters thought) in turning it to his own advantage. Less and less White House aides discussed the presidential race, more and more they made optimistic estimates about the number of G.O.P. Congressmen who would ride in on Ike's coattails. Last week, to spread those coattails even wider...
...Campbell--whom Batteau claims has "more ideas per cubic inch than any man I've ever known"--says, "the necessity for philosophic speculation is not being met in out society. The old tools of thought are wearing thin, and new ones have to be developed. Old thoughts are beginning to yield diminishing returns. The job of the speculator is to develop these new tools of thought, so vital to progress...