Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal Democratic President could not manage a liberal Democratic Congress, how is the conservative Republican expected to maneuver the same Congress? If the leader of a labor-oriented political party could not pacify the rebellious labor unions, how is the leader of a big-business-oriented party expected to reason with labor? If the President who was swept into office in 1964 on the largest majority vote ever could not unite his country, how can Nixon, who twice before lost elections and won the last time with a minority of the popular vote, unify the people...
...HAROLD J. LASKI: The expert, simply by reason of his immersion in a routine, tends to lack flexibility of mind once he approaches the margins of his special theme. He is incapable of rapid adaptation. No man is so adept at realizing difficulties within the field that he knows; but few are so incapable of meeting situations outside that field...
...stood before Judge Panayotis Voughas in Athens Special Military Court, it seemed hardly surprising that the death sentence was pronounced. Greece's ruling colonels were proud of the fact that there had been no executions under the 19-month-old regime, but in this case there seemed ample reason for breaking precedent...
...more than half a century, the spot in the Louvre's Grande Galerie had the aura of a shrine. And for good reason. There hung Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the Louvre's-and the world's-most famous painting. When Culture Minister Andre Malraux decided to redecorate the gallery and install in it the museum's collection of French paintings, the first question was what could possibly replace La Giaconda's enigmatic smile? The answer, decided Director Andre Parrot and Curator Michel Laclotte, was the tragic clown figure, Gilles, painted...
Goodwin is not a candidate for a second reason: he is not a handsome man. He has all the sophistication of the Kennedy-style politicians, but with a pock-marked face, heavy eyebrows, and hair brushed flat against his head, he has none of their beauty. His weakness as a candidate he admits implicitly. "Nixon was the only Republican who could have lost to Humphrey," he said. "Anybody who looks like Nixon can always be beaten...