Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particularly with those who are frustrated by the war. The general's inspection trip to Viet Nam this week will doubtless help Wallace's effort to convince voters that he has a grasp of world affairs?and, in fact, last week's speech on foreign policy before the National Press Club in Washington was reasonably restrained and cogent...
...lead in the polls, Nixon is conserving his energy and avoiding the fatigue that caused him to make mistakes in 1960. He usually gets to bed by midnight and takes weekends on the beach to preserve his suntan for the TV camera. That is an advantage for the press, too, of course...
There were signs that the Soviets were growing weary of dealing with such resilient men. Despite their overpowering military presence, they still remain unable to find a political quisling to do their bidding. Even so, the Soviet press opened a new attack on the Prague leadership, There were also reports that Soviet army officers were encouraging conservative Communists to form anti Dubček factions. The main problem is that Dubček's popularity remains so high among Czechoslovaks that any move to overthrow him would most likely require direct Soviet military action and perhaps even the creation...
GEORGE ELIOT, A BIOGRAPHY by Gordon S. Haight. 616 pages. Oxford University Press...
Mailer felt a wrenching change in his own politics. It came to him when he was waiting for the Rev. Ralph Abernathy to show up for a press conference. "It was a simple emotion and very unpleasant to him," writes Mailer. "He was getting tired of Negroes and their rights. It was a miserable recognition, and on many a count, for if he felt even a hint this way, then what immeasurable tides of rage must be loose in America itself? He was so heartily sick of listening to the tyranny of soul music, so bored with Negroes triumphantly late...