Word: politicians
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...student of history and as a politician long fascinated by the techniques of power, John Kennedy should know the consequences of failure. "The greatest danger to a President's potential influence," wrote Columbia Professor Richard Neustadt in Presidential Power (a book Kennedy liked so well that he hired Neustadt as a consultant on Government organization), "is not the show of incapacity he makes today, but its apparent kinship to what happened yesterday, last month, last year. For if his failures seem to form a pattern, the consequence is bound to be a loss of faith in his effectiveness...
Eager to see and experience the world he lives in, Barry Goldwater is almost too versatile to be true; a businessman, politician, jet pilot, folklorist, explorer, photographer and athlete, he is as modern as tomorrow. Yet at the same time, there is in both the individualist Goldwater message and the self-reliant Goldwater manner an echo of the Old West. Appropriately, the man himself is heir to the spirit of a pioneering family in a state barely one generation removed from the frontier...
Gaslights! The first thing James Ryan wanted to be was a garbageman, the second thing was a priest. "Some Baptists will find a comparison in that," he cracks. A high point of his youth was when his father, a minor politician, wangled the first electricity in his "back-of-the-stock-yards" neighborhood. So impressive was this that when his sister read about "wanton women standing under gaslights, leading men down sinful paths," the future Bishop exclaimed: "How awful-gaslights...
...Secretary of State or something in that line." Born in a farmhouse, Grimsley enlisted in the Army after high school, got his taste for diplomacy while serving at the U.S. embassy in Rome. Using the G.I. bill, he became the first of his family to attend college. A campus politician, he headed everything from the athletic association to the interdormitory council. Last summer he worked hard to nominate Lyndon Johnson for President in Los Angeles, where he organized Johnson's uproarious airport welcome. This summer, Fulbright Scholar Grimsley heads for Bogota's University of the Andes to study...
Parallel Lines. At first sight, Charlie Carmody seems to have the gusto of Frank Skeffington, the roguish politician (modeled on James Michael Curley) who ran away with the earlier novel. But Charlie dwindles into a gabby stage Irishman. Father Kennedy promises to be one of Graham Greene's degraded but tormented priests. Instead, his anguish is smothered in resignation, and his vocation is feeble. Compared with The Last Hurrah, this novel is a kind of lost begorra...