Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scale-without making it clear how it would be applied. The standards of obscurity are historically fickle. Czechoslovakia and Poland seemed fairly obscure to many Americans in the 1930s, but events there led to World War II. Greece was an off-Broadway tragedy after World War II until Harry Truman decided to commit U.S. power there to stop a Communist takeover. Today, obscurity may be gently, even favorably, applied to such non-countries as Andorra, such splinter countries as Sikkim. But Galbraith is breathtaking in classifying as obscure all of Southeast Asia, an area of nearly 1,500,000 square...
...point of Selassie's crowded, one-day visit was the naming of the just-completed airport road "Boulevard Haile Selassie." Such are conditions in Haiti, however, that road dedications can be dubious honors. As he drives toward Port-au-Prince, Selassie can get a good look at Harry Truman Boulevard along the waterfront. It is now six inches deep in mud and completely impassable...
...plainly becoming a bane. With 321 Democrats in the field for local and state offices-greatest number in at least 28 years-seven Republicans and three Democrats were contesting one congressional seat. Republican Margaret Chase Smith's U.S. Senate seat is sought by two Democrats: State Representative Plato Truman and, to compound the confusion, a Portland landscape consultant named Jack L. Smith, 43. Moreover, a Democrat named Carlton Reed is challenging Republican Governor John H. Reed...
...believe Lyndon Johnson is as right as Roosevelt, as timely as Truman, as cautiously correct as Kennedy, and as entitled to Eisenhower's and the nation's support as the Courier-Journal used to say in editorials I wrote...
...before the cameras before it cools off. With such success enveloping him, Robbins feels that he can afford to snipe genially at some fellow writers who have enjoyed loftier reputations. Norman Mailer, he says, lost his knack "because he ran into his belly." And as for Truman Capote: "He'd be all right if he took his finger out of his mouth...