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...impelled by a declared charter interest in politics, the Atlantic strove to break out of its parochial mold. It took a sturdy abolitionist position, endorsed Lincoln's election in both 1860 and 1864. It risked the wrath of its readers in 1869 with an article by Harriet Beecher Stowe recounting Lord Byron's incestuous relations with his sister -and spent the next 40 years recovering the 15,000 circulation that it lost as a result. But it could be stuffy too. In an 1882 article on "The Prominence of Athleticism in England," it claimed that Americans could...
With dignity, earnestness and immense discretion, four men last week strove for election to a place on one of the nation's most select, secretive and somber ruling bodies: the board of university trustees that is styled by ancient usage as the Yale Corporation. Following tradition, an alumni committee put up an official slate for Yale's 85,000 graduates to choose from: Flour Heir Philip W. Pillsbury, 60; Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay, 42, of New York; and George B. Young, 51, executive vice president of Chicago's Field Enterprises Inc. Competing with them was William...
Classicist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, diarist (170-odd volumes of notebooks repose in Houghton Library)--and so much more. Above all he strove to be a 20th-century Periclean Hellene; and his whole life was indeed a paragon of the ancient Greek arete...
...gallantry. Biographer Isaac Deutscher seems especially susceptible to this gallantry. An ex-Trotskyite and a respected writer on Communism, Deutscher has turned out an exciting, exacting biography that is very likely definitive, but he cannot prevent a touch of hero worship from creeping into his prose. Trotsky, Deutscher says, "strove to rally his fighters to the most impossible of causes. He sought to set them against every power in the world: against fascism, bourgeois democracy and pacifism; and against religion, mysticism and even secularist rationalism and pragmatism. He demanded unshakable conviction, utter indifference to public opinion, unflagging readiness for sacrifice...
Lemass faced monumental problems, for during the '30s the government was locked in a vindictive, futile economic war with the English, though it remained economically dependent on Britain. He strove desperately to mobilize enough new industry to supply the nation's basic needs, though at high cost; he also founded the state transport network and organized a national merchant marine in time to keep Ireland fed during World War II, in which he took on the additional job of Minister of Supply, and by brilliant improvisation averted crippling shortages...