Word: norness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Traveling around Virginia and Pennsylvania last week, White House Correspondent Simmons Fentress found that most people give Nixon good, if not spectacularly high marks on his first 60 days. At the same time, the President has made almost no headway at all in converting the young and the blacks, who...
In the opinion of Historian Sidney Hyman (The Politics of Consensus), Nixon's new role as a conciliator is another example of the "politics of reverse images," which changes many men who enter the White House. F.D.R., the aristocrat, became known, for example, as the man of the people...
Almost his first move as President was to establish an agency with the somewhat pompous name of "the Office of Experts." It consisted of a group of highly trained technocrats (average age: 34) assigned to find ways of breathing efficiency into the government. Despite considerable effort, they have not succeeded...
Radio Moscow beams an ultimatum: Either Mao and his clique step down, or Peking will be seized. To reinforce the warning, Soviet heavy bombers destroy China's nuclear-testing-and-development centers at Lop Nor and Lanchow. Stubbornly, Mao decides to fight on. Peking falls, and to the west...
But that suggestion, implying that there is no American culture worth knowing, is antediluvian and, for our purposes, quite irrelevant. Neither Lamartine nor Gauguin can be of much use to us in our search for a real America behind the murk, the insouciance, and the chauvinism of the American mind...