Word: schlamme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five years of life, Buckley has led National Review through a sometimes baffling intellectual maze. In 1956, one of its editors, James (The Managerial Revolution) Burnham, recommended President Eisenhower's reelection: "The least bad choice." In the same issue, another editor, William S. Schlamm, urged Eisenhower's defeat: "To liberate the Republican Party from the man who is destroying it." In 1960 the magazine has endorsed Richard M. Nixon, but with the back of its hand ("Who likes Nixon's Republicanism? We don't"), as the only alternative to the Democrats' John F. Kennedy...