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...World War II on the grounds that it would result in repression and fascism at home and the shoring up of imperialist regimes (Britain and France) abroad. Even those of his supporters who disagreed with his position in this case--and in others in which he was more prescient--could not help appreciating and respecting his reasons. Swanberg's Thomas thus appears as an almost classically tragic figure whose discriminating mind and commitment to democratic ideals were at once his greatest personal assets and political liabilities. In what seems an apocryphal metaphor, Swanberg notes that Thomas was a singularly inept...
...would ultimately have a lot to do with the severe paintings Rauschenberg made between 1951 and '53: all-white and then all-black panels, the latter painted over a wrinkled mulch of newspaper, with no relationships of color. Twenty-five years ago, these pictures looked absurd; today they seem prescient. Art history has caught up with them, and the work of some of the most admired younger American painters?Robert Ryman's all-white paintings, Brice Marden's monochrome slabs of encaustic?can be traced back to them. "Albers," says Rauschenberg, "did give me a sense of discipline that...
Carter began laying the foundation for his campaign four years ago, when he and his astute campaign director, Hamilton Jordan (see box page 34), drafted an uncannily prescient strategy for the primaries. About a year later, as Democratic congressional campaign chairman for the 1974 election, Carter traveled all over, meeting party officials and power brokers, observing politics outside the South, learning firsthand the issues that bothered voters...
...that rambunctious child of the sidewalks of New York," have provided New Yorkers with one of the most exciting name-calling, go-for-the-jugular campaigns in years. If he wakes up Wednesday morning as the Empire State's junior Senator-elect, Moynihan would do well to remember his prescient observation in a 1969 address called "Politics As the Art of the Impossible...
...through intelligence, not faith, that Carter and his young campaign manager Hamilton Jordan analyzed this year's lineup of primaries and devised a meticulous, prescient plan for using them to win the nomination. And it was intelligence, of course, that enabled Carter to grasp the intricacies of many, though certainly not all, national issues while simultaneously campaigning around the country...