Word: utterness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...anything negotiable rather than thermonuclear war? Are we going to wipe out two-and-a-half billion years of slow biological improvement? Over what-Berlin? I agree with Nehru that to go to war under any circumstances for anything at all in our world in our time is utter absurdity. I certainly think Berlin is negotiable, and, as a matter of fact, Khrushchev is not even asking very much...
Hypnotic Gas. A quiet, secretive, self-educated, 39-year-old intellectual who is calm and courteous on the set and an utter mystery to his friends, Resnais was born in Vannes, the son of a Breton pharmacist. He made his first motion picture, called Adventures of Fantomas, when he was 13, using 8-mm. film and proceeding on the lovely green theory that if he concentrated on closeups his child actors would look adult...
...clock surveillance weighs heavily on every U.S. official who lives and works in a Communist state. Electronic eavesdropping has become so insidious and ubiquitous an art behind the Iron Curtain that there is hardly a single spot where a Western diplomat-or even a vacationer-can talk with utter certainty that Big Brother is not listening. Says one old State Department hand: "You just have to get used to living with it. It's like living in a haunted house...