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...envisioned "open doors rather than iron curtains," the "building of peaceful bridges" toward Communist China, new efforts toward arms control, multilateral development programs for the hungry nations. To those who accuse the U.S. of "arrogance of power," he replied that America has nothing to apologize for; yet he used none of the hyperbolic terms that have marked some of his foreign policy pronouncements in recent years. Later he even acknowledged that perhaps "we overspoke ourselves" in promising to "go any place, any time" to negotiate with North Viet Nam. While he predicted that preliminary talks with the Communists would...
...remains a master of the meeting-hall peroration. At a time when personal political networks count for more than the traditional party organization, he has none to speak of. In an era when a fresh face and youthful persona are worth 1,000 platitudes and millions of votes, Humphrey, who will be 57 on May 27, is the old man of the competition, in danger of seeing his many and distinguished accomplishments of 23 years in elective office dissipated by overexposure. Even to some of his friends, he seems the eternal boy next door, fated to be jilted again...
Eshkol's cabinet, meantime, is divided over how much of the occupied territory it will be willing to bargain over in any negotiations, some wanting to return none at all and others willing to give part; nobody wants to give it all back. The results of a poll by Israel's Dachaf agency last week show that an overwhelming 87% approve the government's policy of refusing to give back any territory until the Arabs agree to direct talks with Israel. Surprisingly, 78% are willing to give back one or more pieces once negotiations begin...
...with a crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...
...None of this, however, spoils the book's validity. Schickel himself puts it best: "Our environment, our sensibilities, the very quality of both our waking and sleeping hours, are all formed largely by people with no more artistic conscience or intelligence than a cumquat. If the happy few do not study them at least as seriously as they study Andy Warhol, then they will lose their grip on the American reality...