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...chief executive officer. Though his influence is powerful, he is "a builder, not a poet," as Journalist Edgar Snow says. Chou is usually described as a "moderate" or a "pragmatist." But he is also, in all senses of the word, an opportunist. To some of those who knew the patrician Premier when he was starring in student theatricals (once in a female part) in the Teens, he is a skillful dissembler, not to be trusted in any circumstances. But most Westerners who have met Chou would agree with Henry Kissinger, who said last week: "He is not a petty...
Gentlemanly Resignation. This spectacular interventionism, unparalleled in peacetime America, could be carried off only by a man of singular self-assurance. This Acheson had-to a fault. His career was a textbook example of the rise of a 'patrician in the snug embrace of the American Establishment. His father was a clergyman who migrated to the U.S. from Britain and became Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. His mother was an heiress, daughter of a family of Canadian whisky distillers. Young Dean attended Groton, Yale and Harvard Law School. He married Alice Stanley, his sister's roommate at Wellesley...
Richmond Newspapers, Inc. (Times-Dispatch and News Leader) hired him in 1950 as research director and part-time editorial writer to work alongside the noted conservative James J. Kilpatrick. Donnahoe had risen to executive vice president by 1966 when D. Tennant Bryan, the patrician third-generation publisher, decided that the papers should go public. In 1969 the corporation was renamed Media General, with Bryan as chairman and Donnahoe as president...
...there have been times when he had hardly any audience at all. The Moviegoer is the subject of one of the publishing industry's favorite heartwarmers. The firm of Knopf evidently thought it had bought something more like Lanterns on the Levee, the classic clarion call to patrician Southern virtue written by Percy's uncle, William Alexander. The publisher did not think enough of the nephew's effort to submit it for the National Book Awards, but it won anyway, after a shaggy-dog sequence of events that began when the late A.J. Liebling picked the book...
...hysteria. No outsider knows Mao's personal role, but Western analysts generally assume that he is probably overseeing the army's domestic reorganization program and that his trust in Chou is almost total. At any rate, both the army and Mao seem willing to give the suave patrician a free hand in the game at which he is an acknowledged master: diplomacy...