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...faded more than a generation ago, after briefly generating power and light for the U.S. President he served. He and Franklin Roosevelt made a curious, and before long incompatible, pair: the brilliant Columbia University professor on whose counsel F.D.R. placed the highest value at first, and the headstrong political pragmatist who eventually came to count few men's counsel above his own. For Moley, disillusion set in soon. He left Washington in September 1933, after only six months as presidential assistant, emissary and speech collaborator. In this book, he builds a private monument over the grave of what...
...Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 46, an unimpressive if well-meaning former Governor who was ignominiously defeated for nomination by his own Lieutenant Governor in the 1964 primary. This year Peabody won the Democratic nomination after a bruising battle with Boston's two-term mayor, John Collins, 47, an icy pragmatist whose political strength is based largely in the city, where he has mounted a brilliant if bloodless attack on urban renewal problems. Collins, a polio victim who is usually confined to a wheelchair, relied extensively on well-delivered television oratory and made an attempt to attract white-backlash votes...
Hocking studied philosophy at Harvard under the "Philosophical Four"-- Josiah Royce, George Herbert Palmer, William James, and George Santayana-- provided a link to their era. His own creed was once defined as "idealist in the tradition of Royce and pragmatist in the tradition of James...
SPONG is a pragmatist who is projecting a kind of semi-Kennedy im-11GOVERNOR MILLS GODWIN...
Bluntly candid, Mann was known as a hard-liner on Latin American affairs. He himself insisted, "I am a pragmatist, not a dogmatist," but was criticized for his disapproval of some left-wing but non-Communist Latin regimes, his rigorous criteria for economic aid and determined promotion of free enterprise in developing countries. Criticism failed to deter him, however, and his resignation indicates neither a shift in Administration Latin policy nor a disagreement...