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...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...
Writing in New Statesman (a longer version of the same article appeared in Commentary) Hughes says that a campaign such as his "suggests that if a candidate and his friends are willing to go to all that trouble--and with no chance of electoral reward--they must mean what they say. In the simplest terms, this is what we tried to do last spring. We were trying to impress on the minds of our fellow citizens that for a minority of people in one key state of the union the issue of human survival was worth an extraordinary commitment...
...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...