Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grim years of cold war, a truly effective U.S. foreign policy is the work of decades. It is the sum total of crises met, of potential dangers recognized and countered, of national hopes and aspirations projected in hundreds of big and little policies. Success is measured in the sharpening ability to counter the probing actions before they become big offensives, in the growing frustration and confusion of the enemy, in the degree of popular will-to-win at home. Ultimate policy goal: to wrap up the political, economic, military and moral meanings of the U.S. into the sort of grand...
...such long-range terms, 1958 could be reckoned a year of limited success. Still shocked at year's beginning by Sputnik, the U.S. strengthened its steady recognition that crisis is the cold-war staple that must be lived with and lived up to. The 1958 record looked even better because of Communism's failure to keep up its Sputnik momentum. And while the U.S. failed to define the grand plan-despite the stabs made by President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson, et al.-this failure was mitigated by the fact that...
...hope of 1959 that 1958's limited success in cold-war foreign policy bred a tough U.S. restraint and a will to live with the battle in all its forms. It was the hope of the policy of decades that 1959 began with a general dissatisfaction with the broad aims and goals of U.S. policy as thus defined, a general determination to do something about them...
...less dramatic and more diffuse than in Europe. In Dr. May's practice with Manhattan professional workers and exurbanite brokers and industrialists, the symptoms may be nothing more pronounced than an exaggeration of the normal routine. Wall Street and Madison Avenue, he believes, require compulsive characteristics for success. The man who succeeds in these fields, becoming a slave to routine and conformity, gets nervous when the daily cycle is broken-which explains why he drinks so much on Sundays and holidays...
...typical patient in May's practice is a businessman who has risen rapidly to success, made much money, is intelligent and works hard but is running on an accelerating treadmill. The first sign of his illness is increasing anxiety when the compulsive routine is disturbed, and he soon feels guilty because he is "not working well enough," starts to worry inordinately about details, stuffs his pockets with memos. He cannot take a real vacation. He is a perfectionist-and rigid perfectionism is viewed as a symptom of unconscious guilt. By now, the businessman has something to feel guilty about...