Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam policy and generally admire him were privately indignant, and at least some of his enemies thought they smelled his undoing. "How could she have done it to him?" was a common reaction in Dixie. On the floors of the House and Senate, however, silence was the rule. Indeed, there had been a far greater outcry over Justice William Douglas' successive (albeit intraracial) marriages than over the Smith-Rusk wedding, which, after all, only indirectly involved a high public official and had been handled with notable grace and discretion...
...Affair of State." Most newspapers, North and South, played the story heavily but straight. Front-page pictures and reports were the rule, and most headlines reported the bridegroom's race. But editorials on the subject were scarce, although the Richmond News Leader called mixed marriages "eccentric" and said that "anything that diminishes his [Rusk's] personal acceptability is an affair of state." New York Post Columnist Harriet Van Home was sympathetic, commenting that "the intimate joys and sorrows of public figures must inevitably become the common gossip of the marketplace...
...political and economic realism that he unabashedly calls "Bourguibism." Bourguibism is shaped by the belief, he explains in the Cartesian style that he acquired in elite French schools, that "no domain of terrestrial life must escape man's power of reason." Ever since the French left him to rule Tunisia in 1956, Bourguiba has been trying to apply reason to nation building. He has not always succeeded, but there are increasing signs of more success than failure...
Kicking the Tradition. Under the paternalistic rule of le Pere, as his countrymen call him, youngsters everywhere now flock to new secular schools that have replaced the dreary old Koranic institutions. Young Tunisian women wear mini-djebbas that are the scandal of the mullahs, and bikinis among the scantiest on the Mediterranean. But Bourguiba is kicking more than tradition into the North African dust...
...blot on my father's name," she says. She admits that Stalin and Beria were often "guilty together," but calls Stalin's support of Beria "inexplicable," due to Beria's "cunning." The truth must be that Stalin needed Beria to con solidate his rule of Russia during the trembling 1930s, and toward that end Beria murdered tens of thousands. Svet lana's narrative coincides with the bloodiest reign in history. She almost misses it and remarks with startling naivete, "People shot themselves fairly often in those days . . . People were a lot more honest and emotional...