Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final rule is to round up party allies by enhancing the politician's eternal dream of even higher office. Last week during a trip to Washington to attend a Governors' dinner at the White House, Romney had a private conversation with New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, a longtime supporter of Governor Nelson Rockefeller. It may have been coincidence, but Jack Javits the day before announced that he will not support a Rockefeller drive for the presidential nomination in 1968. And it is neither a coincidence nor a secret that Javits would love to be Vice...
...amount of political radicalism on Latin politician campases has been "grosdy over-exaggerated" by the American press, Dr. Glaucio A.D. Soares, a prominent Brazilian sociologist, said tonight...
...could expose his junior brood to Baldwin, to Norman Mailer, to Paul Goodman and Ayn Rand--not because the Institute should attempt to convert its residents into radicals and reactionaries, but because a good politician understands his community, not only the majority that elects him, but also the minorities on the fringes, where political creativity often has its roots...
...scholars may have new fields and new sources opened to them, what about the politicians? The Institute will be in Cambridge, not Washington, and Neustadt admits that no practicing politician will be willing to spend any length of time away from...
...question can be answered by an attempt at redefining a politician. The people who drew up the plans for the Institute tended to think of him in opposition to the academic, as a practical man in the midst of life, far from any ivory towers. Yet this is becoming less true. Is a Washington-bound politician any less isolated from life than a professor? The politician's day is full of desk work, as much of it as he cares to tend to. Legislative sessions get longer, and the vacations, the time spent at home, shorter each year. Inevitably...