Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Petulant Praise. Said Nixon, in words that were too small of spirit to make for real tragedy: "Now that all the members of the press are so delighted that I have lost, I'd like to make a statement of my own." He spoke in petulant praise of his opponent: "I believe Governor Brown has a heart, even though he believes I do not. I believe he is a good American, even though he feels I am not." For 17 minutes he went on, talking about national issues, but returning repeatedly to his feelings about the press. Almost incoherently...
...Eleanor, she wrote her own legend. She often mentioned her ugly-duckling childhood. She sadly recalled how she was ruled by a domineering mother-in-law. She constantly spoke of her innate shyness. She presented an image of sweet uncomplicated Eleanor, who occasionally oversimplified quite complicated issues, but whose heart was as big as all humanity. She never wrote "I think . . ."; she always wrote "I feel . . ." But in nurturing this legend, Eleanor Roosevelt did herself an injustice. She did feel-but she also thought. And she had one of the sharpest intellects that the U.S. has known. Did she know...
...Many others were no longer at issue, and the world had come to judge her not by her causes but by her indefatigable heart and her humanity. The United Nations, in a rare unity, hushed its debates for a minute in her honor, and her devoted friend Adlai Stevenson spoke her epitaph: "Her glow had warmed the world." The three Presidents who had succeeded her husband in office were at the graveside as she was buried beside Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the rose garden at Hyde Park...
...Guide. By offering their sealed boxes, the Russians were of course conceding nothing of value. Indeed, they gave scant support to the hopeful new thesis now abroad, that Khrushchev after Cuba might take a genuinely new, flexible approach to negotiation of the major East-West issues. Some Westerners excitedly spoke of grasping new opportunities while Moscow was off balance: an access deal for Berlin, perhaps even some kind of German reunification...
...thing so difficult to communicate is the difference between my experience as a black man and your experience as white people," novelist James Baldwin said last night. He spoke in the Christ Church parish house...