Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sarris manages any role well, it's a clumsy one--the scholarly tough who's given his all to the art he studies while the world goes on uncaring. A Casaubon with balls. In a recent Partisan Review symposium on Culture and Conservation, Sarris spoke, he said, as a humble representative of film art, and after dreary argumentation, summed up his personal attitude...
Nixon heads into his last term under a cloud of partisan acrimony engendered by the charges and counter-charges growing out of the Watergate political-espionage investigations. A criminal trial, several civil suits, a Senate committee investigation led by Democrats, all may poison the atmosphere. The highly protective and pugnacious White House domestic staff seems more adept at political infighting than at helping the President govern by conciliating contending factions...
Since questions of illegal activity have arisen in the Watergate case and in the handling of Nixon campaign funds, one way to help clear the contentious air would be to place the Justice Department in less partisan hands. The practice of having such political operators as Robert Kennedy serving as John Kennedy's Attorney General and John Mitchell doing the same for Nixon makes the department suspect, as in the G.O.P.-ITT controversy. There are rumors, in fact, that Mitchell's man Richard Kleindienst may be eased out of his attorney generalship after a decent interval in the next Administration...
...choose such a partisan nutritionist as Dr. Winick to cover the International Health Fair [Oct. 23]. Though he renders a service in exposing the faddism and snake-oil huckstering in the movement, he overlooks what will be its lasting effect: turning Americans away from the plastic "long shelf life" foods of the supermarkets back to the plain, flavorsome-and more healthful-foods of the real world...
KENNAN SOUGHT POWER. He wanted his advice accepted. But he had no partisan aims and detested competitive, less knowledgeable, contributors to American foreign policy--especially the Congress. Certainly his ambition has been anything but unique among post-war Intellectuals. What surprises is that he felt so completely frustrated. The success of a Kissinger or a Rostow contrasts markedly with Kennan's failure. But to explain the different outcomes in terms of personality begs the question. Kennan's failure was rooted in an institutional bias in favor of a Cold War mentality which could not appreciate the subtleties of Kennan...