Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Historical attention-partisan and otherwise-has mostly centered onYalta and the deals made there by the dying Franklin Roosevelt. But it was actually at Potsdam that the wartime Anglo-American-Russian collaboration fell apart. The division of Germany was sealed there as postwar spheres of influence were confirmed. In the West, a shocked public blamed the intransigence of Stalin. But in this close and lively look at the three Potsdam participants Charles Mee, the former editor of Horizon now turned popular historian, gives nobody credit for good intentions...
...Marty Riessen recalls: "Jimmy spent a night at my house in 1973. It was very pleasant. I could like him. He's a nice kid, but I can't get to him. None of us can. He's covered up by his mother and his manager." Evert, a more partisan observer, adds: "Inside Jimmy is a very gentle person. To outsiders, he's harder because he's been hurt by the press and crowds. There's no one he tells everything to, but in that 10% that he keeps to himself, I know it hurts him to be disliked...
...Lipset warns his readers that the topics he emphasizes "clearly reflect the values, biases, and conceptual outlook of the authors." Cautions of this sort usually go without saying in academic literature, but in Lipset's case the warning should not go uneeded. Lipset is writing as an insider, a partisan on his home turf, and makes little pretense at detachment. He makes no apologies for his professional or institutional attachments, but Lipset's esteem for his calling has made his narrative account of Harvard politics more personal than it pretends...
Robinson, batting himself second as the Indian's designated hitter, worked Yankee pitcher Doc Medich to a 2-2 count, fouling off three pitches, before hitting his homer. As the partisan crowd roared. Robinson tipped his cap as he crossed home plate...
...Arola, Italy. Sheean covered many of the century's key events: the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler, the Chinese revolution of 1927, the Spanish Civil War, the London Blitz and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charing at the shibboleth of objectivity, he adopted a personal, partisan, generally leftist tone, though his fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best work is his own Personal History (1935), a minor classic on his first years...