Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the Banal Generation (dean's-list students, over 20, and not even flower children) do hereby affirm our faith in the warmth and empathy of the poetry of Rod McKuen [Nov. 24] and do unanimously declare that your review is Truman Capote with a twist of formaldehyde. SANDRA BARKER CATHY TRACY MARGOT GRONHOLZ Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio...
Lyndon Johnson is fond of comparing himself to the Harry Truman of 1948, who won an upset victory with a rip-roaring "give-'em-hell" campaign. Johnson's opponents prefer to compare him to the Truman of 1952, who decided not to run again in the midst of an unpopular war. Neither analogy quite fits. The fact is that the 1968 campaign is shaping up as a race like none before...
...short, McNamara achieved President Truman's frustrated dream of unifying and centrally controlling the armed services. But this was not accomplished without heavy political costs--particularly on Capitol Hill, where many Congressmen preferred to deal with the services individually. It is likely that the political debits that McNamara accumulated in fulfilling this revolutionary task made him, after seven years of infighting, something of a liability in President Johnson's eyes...
...working man. He ceases to be a proletarian. He thinks he's as good as everybody else." Hoffer knows he is. "You can almost close your eyes," he says, "reach over the sidewalk and make a man President, and he'll turn out to be Truman." That, in Hoffer's eyes, is "terrific, breathtaking...
Rosenberg's spectre of authority is highly effective. Strother Martin is perfect as the camp warden. He speaks in a slow, mad, Truman Capote-like whine. In one scene, after savagely caning Luke, he looks at him writhing on the ground and says, "What we have here is a failure to communicate." This is the point--there is no communication between real men like Luke and the authority of a dull, oppressive society...