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President Nixon obviously remains a world-minded man. He is pursuing some very skillful diplomacy, both patient and imaginative, in regard to the Middle East, China and the Soviet Union. He was proud last month (and rightly so) to be able to announce the possibility of an anti-ballistic missile...
BUT Kissinger's coup of the Cabinet departments was not as simple as that. It involved a devious circumvention of the bureaucracy through the skillful use of study memoranda and detailed, lengthy questionnaires. According to several men who were close associates of Kissinger at the time, Kissinger came to power...
Still, Rosen also knows that even the most skillful poseur benefits from moments of self-revelation. His book does aspire, successfully too, towards a correspondingly mannered honesty. And so Harvard tortures him with its promises of success and its undercurrent of failure. "We would have liked, some of us, to...
Olmsted describes the rowers as Though the girls are weaker than men, they are quite a bit more skillful and graceful than the average oarsman."
Among Freud's many strange pupils, Dr. Wilhelm Reich was surely the strangest. To his disciples, he was a prophet who preached a gospel of orgasm. But many colleagues in Europe put him down as a pornographic charlatan and Communist crackpot. After Reich moved to the U.S., a federal...