Word: politicians
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...suit with the simple thin tic. His hair seems a little grayer than the pictures, but the curling side-burns over the car and that lock of hair which always hangs out of the pack over the forehead give him away. Notice the chin, the forthright chin of a politician who doesn't know enough to pull it back in before they knock it off. He's a dead ringer for a politician, a liberal politician like Hal Holbrook in "The Senator," and the term would be more widely used if it weren't considered gauche in the academic community...
...presidential nomination was said to have been New York's Mayor John Lindsay or Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield. Tricia can easily imagine Ed becoming a Nader-bred advocate lawyer and even perhaps going into politics himself. "You know the saying," she says, "that every lawyer is a frustrated politician...
...impeccable credentials on social affairs, economics and conservation" of Senator Henry Jackson are not "lost to view," to anyone who has been paying attention. There is no politician in the country who has a better grasp of the national interest, or who has voted more consistently in that interest...
Faculty, however, have tenure politician lack, and Cambridge faculty have supposedly "arrived." Eisenhower could openly delegate half the presidency but a professor is not surposed to delegate his reading and writing (though, no doubt, some do). He is always fighting time, the great leveller. which will neither be extended nor compressed. Busymess is his true opium. In his Sisyphean labors, his merchandising of words, his endless ascent of unattainable peaks, it seems to me that he has lost touch not only with his students and his fellow men but with his own humanity.Program on Technology and Society
...this new situation, which has actually existed for at least a decade but which the U.S. is not yet really accustomed to, foreign policy will have to depend less on military force and direct Marshall Plan-style economic heft and more on diplomacy, trade and political maneuvering. French Journalist-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, among others, has argued that the U.S. will have to choose between continued international power and the building of "an ambitious civilization" at home. For the foreseeable future, the U.S. will obviously insist on both, but Servan-Schreiber is right in asserting that the U.S. will...