Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individuality is needed. But perhaps what is needed is also something of an older kind. Modern man lives in many overlapping groups; in each, he must find his place, must have his say, must leave his mark, if he can. In a way, this requires him to be a politician in the highest meaning of the word. Politics is the real means of mediation between the individual and the group. This was Lincoln's genius. Today's Americans, enmeshed in community, can only wish for Lincoln's qualities?he was politic without being unprincipled, patient without being resigned, flexible without...
...challenge was among the free-enterprising Liberals, who more than doubled their previous vote of 1,000,000; this was a spectacular gain, even if it amounted to only 7% of the total turnout. Most of the credit went to tireless Liberal Campaigner Giovanni Malagodi, 58, a banker turned politician, who hit out hard at Fanfani's schemes for more government planning and higher taxes...
...Diefenbaker is firstly a Canadian and secondly a politician. He doesn't tenaciously covet power. He fights to do what is best for Canada. Mr. Diefenbaker did not stir up anti-Americanism. He isn't anti-American. He is pro-Canadian, as every Prime Minister should be. He is concerned for the welfare of Canada and is unafraid to stand up and to defend the rights and freedom of Canada and Canadians...
...Young Republicans is also economically and vocationally valuable. It is a fact of politics that the ambitious young aspirant in either party will win a job in Washington or influence in his home state more readily if he has a practical background. Of course a would-be politician in college is well advised to learn to think, for the glands alone cannot produce political success. But also it is advantageous for him to learn to operate in a practical political context like the Young republicans, no matter how obnoxious the right wingers and how petty the annual election fights...
When Gold tries to move from the fringes of society, however, to the mainstream of successful American life, his rush of eloquence falters. The Optimist, a novel which plumbed the past of a rising young politician, was a muddled nearfailure. Salt is a dreary near-disaster which recounts the triangular love trials of three well-heeled squares in Manhattan. Apparently, Gold is trying to say that up-and-coming Americans, tormented by a sense of futility and lack of purpose, try to make love make up for everything else. In the process, they poke and prod and worry it almost...