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...highlight the huge personal and philosophical differences between Kennedy and Stevenson. "We seem to be living in an era," said Stevenson last week, "when anyone who is for war is a hero and anyone who is for peace is a bum." This was the sort of slapdash accusation from which Stevenson himself has sometimes suffered, and it was a strange formulation of the choices before U.S. policymakers. The great point Kennedy had recognized during the Cuba crisis was that there are times when the only way to achieve peace is to risk war. Again, Stevenson insisted that...
...turned wrong side outwards without discovering a blemish to the world." In keeping with the patient, prudent makeup of its author, the Monroe Doctrine was no slapdash improvisation...
...father was on his way to becoming rich. The boy was raised like an Asiatic prince, and the training took firm hold; he lived like one for the rest of his life. Onetime Newspaperman (New York Mirror) Richard O'Connor tells his story well in this appropriately slapdash biography...
Where to Stop? For all his virtues as a dedicated reporter on his own life and thoughts, Adams had his shortcomings. His slapdash autobiography ends in 1780. He inexplicably stopped writing at certain key points in his career, including the years of his presidency (1797-1801). Unfortunately, the editors failed to provide any commentary bridging sections of the diary, faithfully left in reams of material that glaze the eye of the nonhistorian. To fill in the gaps and round out the man, readers will have to wait until the editors of The Adams Papers publish John Adams' witty, newsy...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 (London Symphony, under Sir Malcolm Sargent; Everest). A first stereo recording of one of the most ebullient, eccentric and delightful of Shostakovich's works. When the composer's orchestra-raucous, slapdash and happy-moves into battle, the effect is of a regiment under fluttering pennons posting to the attack...