Word: partisanship
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Biographer Jones believes that Freud was the first man ever to "know himself," the first to examine depths whose "inner resistance" had baffled all others "from Solon to Montaigne, from Juvenal to Schopenhauer." But stout partisanship in no way dulls the brilliance of Jones's biography, any more than it did in the case of James Boswell's celebrated admiration for Samuel Johnson...
...exceedingly silly, seme of which might legitimately be described as 'horrible.' Last year, during the Republican Convention in Chicago, I sat with my head in a television set for four days. The convention coverage could not have been better done . . .There was not the smallest sign of partisanship. At intervals a personable young lady appeared to recommend a particular brand of refrigerator, but when her appearance would have interrupted a dramatic development, it was postponed . . . According to the fatuous mythology of the Left, [the sponsors] should have been Taftites. If so, there was nothing ... to give the smallest...
English Catholic writers today are in strong reaction from the lusty Chesterton and Belloc school, and the middling, manly, romantic strain in English journalism and literature was already in decline when Chesterton died in 1936. Belloc's partisanship turned to anger: "Civilization in England is going to the dogs because we allow five sorts of people to do what they like with us: Jews, Socialists, eugenists, Protestants and teetotalers. The Jews want our money, the Socialists want our land, the eugenists want our women, the teetotalers want our beer, and the Protestants don't know what they want. Four devils...
...applause because he was not a candidate, and end with the brief blend of humor and pathos that was his concession. It is, of course, impossible to read these speeches without hearing the voice, remembering the face on television, and tasting once again some of the partisanship of the campaign. Yet the voice was too high, the delivery too hesitant to add to the words themselves. In book form, the speeches make it even more clear that Adlai Stevenson's appeal lay almost entirely in what...
...realizes that twelve-year-olds are taught to revere Secretary Seward merely for the purchase of Alaska, even four years of Republican blasts can't explain the current myth that Achcson was inadequate. Perhaps we can thank Acheson himself for this. Now that foreign policy is fair game for partisanship, there must be some reply to criticisms, a job which neither the President nor Acheson could do. Thus the critics have had a monopoly on the public's cars. Acheson no doubt tried, and his performance on television during the Security Council meeting in San Francisco a year...