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What's worse, the Gallery's insurgent director, a total newcomer from, God forbid, Reed College, obviously cloisters the most evil of all intentions within his crafty mind. No one could doubt that he is dedicated to the utter humiliation of the Club. For he is embarking upon an experiment which is altogether too daring, too wild, too foolish, to merit the least glimmer of hope for success--he is exhibiting representational, objective...
...writing, anyway. It is hardly difficult to quote silly news articles at length, and get laughs out of them; after 100 pages, though, this gets pretty damn boring. And when Liebling inserts a few words of his own between the great gobs of reprints, his tone is one of utter pomposity, of the man who has been everywhere, read everything, and done all there is to do. His presumed knowledge of every situation that arises is nothing if not infuriating...
Tanganyika's sympathies lie with the West. I had lunch with a TANU official, and to my utter disbelief heard him defend to me the American intervention in Cuba which I had just condemned...
This sort of talk is new to the Executive branch. It was in 1954, not so long ago, that Army Secretary Stevens was demonstrating his utter incapacity for responsible administration before McCarthy's subcommittee and 20 million television viewers. Scott McCloed was running wild through the State Department ruining the careers and reputations of hundreds of its employees without a word of reproach from the Secretary of State. Chiefs ticked off their subordinates in public, and refused to support them against attack from the outside...
Died. Charles Erwin Wilson, 71, ex-president of General Motors, who as Dwight Eisenhower's first Secretary of Defense was regularly undone by his unpolitical addiction to utter candor; of a heart attack; at his Norwood, La., plantation (see THE NATION...