Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Van Wyck Brooks, 77, critic, literary historian and elder statesman of American letters, a deeply reflective, painfully slow writer who is best known for his massive, five-volume Makers and Finders; A History of the Writer in America, 1800-1915, which took him 20 years to write and spans American literature from Washington Irving to William Faulkner; of cancer; in Bridgewater, Conn. As a critic of his culture, Brooks argued that much of American writing was second rate, that U.S. materialism thwarted genius, and that the true fulfillment of America is yet to come. That it would come...
...confided to the care of these men. The intellectual frigidity of Dulles produced, of course, the greatest disappointments. Hughes is eloquent in describing both the tone of Dulles's thought and the ways it clashed with Eisenhower's; but, Hughes says, the President was stuck with the grand old statesman of the G.O.P., though all Eisenhower's hopes might be dashed on that rock...
...Kennedy perhaps exemplifies best this kind of politician: few would say he was a statesman. The reason, quite simply, is that he treats ideas as subordinate to actions and feelings. Kennedy is not interested in ideas themselves, but in what they can do. In using them to set the tone of his campaign last fall, he concentrated on medicare to great effect against Lodge, and on local issues to the dismay of Hughes. Pragmatically he says of the Senate "you're able really to make some suggestions if you've done your (intellectual) homework...
Zanzibar, off Tanganyika's coast, offered a welcome respite to svelte Marie Claire Sandys, 34, who dressed down for carefree swimming parties while her statesman husband Duncan tried to settle local political disputes. The Moslem-oriented Indian Ocean isle seemed pleased with both guests, though Sandys objected strenuously when a photographer snapped his lady in definite un-purdah...
...that. Bell writes in The End of Ideology, "But where the problems are, as Karl Popper put it, of 'piecemeal technology,' of the prosaic, yet necessary questions, of school costs, municipal services, the urban sprawl, and the like, bravura radicalism simply becomes a hollow shell." And Schlesinger in New Statesman writes "Apart from civil rights, the contribution of the utopian Left to the discussion of domestic issues has been unimpressive...