Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a feeling of acute nausea that I read your story about Truman Capote's faux-party...
...Truman Capote narrates his adaptation of A Christmas Memory, an autobiographical tale of a lonely old woman and a small boy who stand together against the sensible world of grownups, which Capote wrote for Mademoiselle in 1956. With Geraldine Page as a distant spinster cousin and Donnie Melvin as "Buddy...
...combat. In World War I, the Navy used them only as messmen, while the Marine Corps excluded them altogether. In World War II, though a few Negro units distinguished themselves in combat, Negroes in all the services were mostly confined to supply, engineering and transportation duties. Though President Truman officially integrated all forces in 1948, there were some segregated units as late as the Korean...
There is one fundamental difference between the two campaigns. The development of atomic energy was a well-kept secret during the war -- Harry Truman had never heard of the Manhattan Project until he assumed the presidency, which was but a few months before the U.S. struck against Japan. Scientists who were used to the free channels of communication which have characterized the profession for centuries forced themselves to develop the weapon for their country in an emergency, with little discussion of the virtues of the plan. CB warfare, on the other hand, is being developed largely in the open...
President Truman issued an executive order in July of 1948 abolishing racial segregation in the armed forces. By the mid '50's the plan was an accomplished fact -- and the change had produced enough fascinating material on race relations to stuff a hundred theses. It might have taken decades of observing society-at-large to get the same information...