Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike its namesake and predecessor, the Yale version of Criterion has neither the polish nor the significance of Eliot's bauble. Unsophisticated, often trite, frequently ill-though-out, and almost never really original, it is still potentially one of the best things to happen to Yale since godandman departed...
...Eisenhower team will probably find Governor Herter much more attuned to its policies than was Mr. Hoover, and one suspects, on the basis of his record, that he will express a more internationally oriented attitude in the inner councils of the Administration than did his predecessor. While Herter does not possess the experience nor outlook designed to make him another Chester Bowles, he is at least free of the burden which former President Hoover must have been...
Other publications include a humor magazine, Highball--recently started after its predecessor was suppressed for lewdness--and a yearbook...
...Russians, who have frequently stated their approval of the Eisenhower regime should seek its demise. The Russians are undoubtedly well satisfied with Secretary Dulles' conduct of foreign affairs, and probably feel, as Molotov has suggested to the Supreme Soviet, that this Administration is more inclined to appeasement than its predecessor. It seems far more likely that the latest Soviet maneuver is calculated to perpetuate the General's presidency rather than...
President Eisenhower has come to grips with some issues in foreign affairs, but he has made few advances over his Democratic predecessor. He has accepted the containment policy; he has tried, but failed, to make progress on disarmament; he has continued the economic aid program; and he has put forth an encouraging atoms-for-peace plan that, while it is just barely getting off the ground, is an imaginative response to the world's desire for rapid economic progress. But the President's foreign policy cannot be separated from that of his Secretary of State, and here the past four...