Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. The darkest side of murder-in this case the killing of a farm family in Kansas-is illuminated with a fidelity that makes the act as real as it was meaningless...
...part of an excellent series, U.S.A.: The Novel, National Educational Television (NET) stations in Boston, New York, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle this week are showing "The Nonfiction Novel," a self-portrait of Truman Capote, who talks about his bestselling book, /// Cold Blood. Dates and time vary locally. NET's 94 other stations will broadcast the show over the next few months...
Blind Spot. Bland persistence is the hallmark of the Arkansas Democrat, who was once denounced by Harry Truman as "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b." But though onetime Rhodes Scholar Fulbright, 60, has long been described as an enigma, the trait that has made him a Senate storm center for two decades is not hard to define...
...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. Whatever it is called-and its author calls it a "nonfiction novel"-this meticulous reconstruction of a multiple murder in Kansas elevates journalism...
...Your story seemed to reach the precise central issue in the controversy over the war. You report Rusk's quoting Harry Truman as saying that we must "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation . . ." Agreed-but note that very important word "free." All the arguments of the Lyndon Johnsons, McGeorge Bundys and Dean Rusks have totally failed to convince thoughtful Americans that the South Vietnamese are, or ever were, a "freer" people than the North Vietnamese. Until they are so convinced, many Americans must continue to regard their country's present military activity as 1) immoral...