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...hurry to recognize genuine kindness, humble dignity and courageous truthfulness, Eleanor Roosevelt stands out like a stoplight. Born into a halcyon world, fortified against poverty and bitterness by wealth, social position and a fortunate marriage, the memories of her "shy, ugly duckling years" have no doubt helped her to possess the wonderful empathy she has for peoples everywhere ... I, for one, who have never met or even seen "Mrs. R.," love her dearly; how must others, who have been touched by her, feel...
...South Korea, he reacted out of deeply rooted American principles. The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the decision to defend South Korea are examples of the healthy Truman reflex. If any problem was close enough, desperate enough and clear enough, he knew what to do. He did not possess and he did not develop the ability to look ahead, to avoid the crises, to build...
Maria got her portrait ("Wish me joy," she wrote, "for I possess your Picture"), and it was about all she had to remember Jefferson by. He went back to the U.S., and she founded a school for girls in Lodi, Italy...
Coping with Communism in this light demands great patience and moral staying power. Theologian Niebuhr is as worried as many Western Europeans that Americans do not possess those qualities in sufficient measure. Without faith, the classic U.S. idealist is the modern man who hovers between "subjection to the 'reason' which he can find in nature and the 'reason' he can impose on nature." He is now frustrated, fearful and impatient with his first experience of a great historical struggle which he cannot control. Warns Niebuhr: "There is no simple triumph over this spirit of fear...
Catch a Beau. A good third of her mail comes from teen-age girls, many asking how to catch a beau. ("The three great boy-catching qualities a girl can possess are: Femininity, Amiability, and Enthusiasm.") For those who want more elaborate answers she has a shelf full of pamphlets ("Mothers-in-Law," "Philandering," "Are You Sure It's Love?", etc.). To those who want her to broaden her interests and run a matrimonial bureau on the side she gives a sympathetic but firm no, has never been able to figure out why my most intelligent mail seems...