Word: remarkable
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...because the child saw him more on the tube than in person. Joan Kennedy offers a one-word self-description: "Vulnerable." Jane Muskie may have cost her husband the Democratic nomination in 1972 by trying to relax with four women reporters after an exhausting campaign day. Her throw-away remark, "Let's just sit here and tell dirty jokes," was published and led to Muskie's celebrated New Hampshire "crying scene...
...Kilson's remark that Jews ought to raise more money if they wish to worship at Harvard. The Crimson has recently reported that Harvard has launched a special drive to raise 15 million dollars largely from Jewish alumni. The Jewish alumni are working vigorously to raise this money, and yet the University has announced that NONE OF THIS MONEY will be used to provide the desperately needed space and facilities for Jewish worship at Harvard, although the University will continue to provide space for, and support financially, the Protestant church services...
Steinberg tries without much success to paint Rayburn as a courageous defender of liberal principles. For example, he notes approvingly Rayburn's agreement with Harry Truman's remark that "Nixon probably never read the Constitution, and if by chance he had he did not understand it." At the same time, he minimizes Rayburn's support of Truman's unconstitutional seizure of the nation's steel mills during the Korean War and of Wilson's Sedition Act, under which hundreds of citizens were jailed for denouncing the United States' role in World...
...unprecedented open press conference, Hirohito was asked his opinion of the U.S. use of atomic bombs in 1945. The Emperor paused, then replied: "I feel sorry for the citizens of Hiroshima, but the bombing could not be helped, as the war at that time was going on." That extraordinary remark understandably touched sensitive nerves throughout Japan. Said one official of the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs: "It is exactly this kind of thinking that will eventually lead humanity to its total destruction...
...first three volumes in 1935, the Journal of Modern History sniffed: "A Gargantuan feast, shall we say? Or is it hash and not chopped up fine enough at that?" In 1947. however, in the postwar search for international understanding, Toynbee suddenly experienced the truth of the Victor Hugo remark about an idea whose time has come. A one-volume abridgment of the first six books of the study sold a phenomenal quarter of a million copies. (An abridgment of Vols. VII to X appeared...