Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 pm.). Art Carney joins Jackie for the first of ten topical musical plays, this one called "The Politician...
...From long experience," he says, "I have become convinced that most intellectuals are secret Platonists who feel that some how the messy, human aspects of life and politics should be brought under the control of enlightened men. In their view, politics should be a 'science' and the politician a 'political scientist.' " If the President still cares seriously about resolving the conflicts and getting along with the intellectuals, John Roche may well prove the ideal catalyst...
...that he was unable last week to persuade a nominating convention to accept his candidates for either Governor or Lieutenant Governor. For all that, Robert Francis Kennedy's pockets are ajingle with the coins of popularity-and, Victor Hugo's sneer notwithstanding, such small change is a politician's most negotiable currency...
Perhaps not. But with the possible exception of Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Kennedy is the most-talked-about politician in the U.S. today, and the most sought after. More than 1,000 letters cascade into his office daily, including a recent premature request for a copy of his inaugural address, and at least 50 invitations to appear as a speaker. Last week in Austin, practically on the President's front porch, 8,000 Texas farm laborers and sympathizers campaigning for a $1.25 minimum wage burst into a spontaneous cheer: "Viva Kennedy!" In Boston, a crowd of 5,000 turned...
...good museum director must be a clever sleuth and a keen scholar, bold but tasteful, charlatan enough to fool his competitors, discreet in his dealings, a master charmer, a canny politician, greedy, and above all, always right in his purchases. Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, Sherman E. Lee of the Cleveland Museum of Art meets most elements of that prescription. Traveling 14,000 miles a year, he metaphorizes his annual buying foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately...