Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. The intriguing saga of Joseph P. Kennedy, son of a barkeeper-politician, and how he acquired his millions and founded a political dynasty...
...world, Lysenko's fellow scientists scoffed at his theories; heredity, they believe, is controlled by genes in the reproductive cells and remains unchanged throughout an individual's life. But Lysenko had something else beside his dogma going for him. He was an exceedingly skillful Communist-style politician, and his views held great appeal for Joseph Stalin. They abetted Stalin's will to believe that hereditary traits can be changed in a planned society. For more than a quarter of a century, as those views controlled Soviet biological research and were written into Soviet textbooks, they degraded Soviet...
Pearson's personal integrity and international reputation as a statesman have never been at issue. But as a politician he has stumbled over one rusty little wire after another, nearly always involving the old-guard politicians in his government...
...Without Bloodshed." A handsome architect turned politician, Belaúnde seems to have had the right blueprint. He sent troops into the highlands to restore law and order, then enacted a sensible land-reform bill that will provide land for the landless without destroying the big, productive estates on which the country's agriculture depends (TIME, July 3). Throughout Peru, police rounded up extremist troublemakers to make it plain that despite some Communist support in the elections, Belaúnde would tolerate no Red-made unrest. Though his Action Popular party and its political allies held only a minority...
...comparison is about the nastiest accusation ever leveled against Adams, an urbane and skeptical politician who, for all his impatience with his contemporaries, respected their right to differ with him-most notably in his gallant defense of British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Robespierre, by contrast, labored under a crabbed, crass perversion of Enlightenment philosophy that allowed no room for disagreement or human foible. Those who did not share that vision were packed off to the guillotine; some 17,000 were beheaded during the Terror. By equating Virtue with Terror, Robespierre set a comforting precedent for every subsequent despot from...