Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tone. He praised peaceful coexistence and argued that "world war is not inevitable," extolled the nuclear test-ban treaty, which Peking refused to sign, and made all the right noises about better relations with the U.S. while keeping Russia's guard up. Sounding like a Western executive or politician promising that things were going to get efficient or he would know the reason why, Brezhnev proclaimed his intention "to combat resolutely red tape and window dressing." He called for "fuller use of the material incentive," meaning the profit motive, in "overcoming the lag of agricultural production." In an indirect...
...United States, which has given him substantial aid, was not. The United States wants the revolts in the Congo suppressed and the government stabilized. It would much rather have gained these obectives with Adoula as Prime Minister. It will support Tshombe only because he seems the one Congolese politician with any chance of success...
...than usual eloquence; and all expressed an admiration for J.F.K. that undoubtedly would have shocked him: Robert Hazel ("President I love as my grandfather loved Lincoln"); Ruth Yorck ("We may stop worrying./ Our best man died./ We know of no one now we can not spare"); John Tagliabue ("precise politician of such steadfast shaking Luminosity"); Edward Pols ("There, still, your bright incontinent essence/ Inclines to its own completion, still/ Shapes almost its own actuality, still contrives/ Some reason, measure, humor in our lives...
...there is much of a new type, drier, and Organization Man politician about him. He somehow projects more of a lean and hungry look and radiates less warmth than did the old guard politicians. He has less flair for the theatrical. He seems to take himself more seriously than they ever would. They were content to build little kingdoms for themselves and rule benevolently. But whatever Bellotti attains, one suspects he will still want to better himself...
...intellectuals to Goldwater's views comes from the intellectuals' ignorance, and not from the absurdity of Goldwater's views. It might be argued that this ignorance is as much the fault of Goldwater as of the intellectuals. I do not think this is fair. It is necessary for a politician to assume an ideological background to which he refers, and it is inevitable that someone unfamiliar with that background will find his speeches meaningless...