Word: walts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times, for all his series of painstakingly individual biographies, Halberstam seems to be in the process of inventing a sort of composite Kennedy man: Walt McNamara Rostow-Bundy. A man with "impeccable credentials" (the phrase occurs again and again) and the small withering smile that confirms them. A man less liberal than he might try to look. A superclerk, the "supreme mover of papers," possessed by "the belief that sheer intelligence and rationality could answer and solve anything...
...with a classical tragedy, there was no turning back. By 1965, the proud, rational men had "completely lost control," and a bitter Lyndon Johnson was left to watch the Great Society come all unstuck, while only Dean Rusk remained "steadfast" and only Walt Rostow dared offer hopeful predictions "like Rasputin to a Tsar under siege...
...Georgia, had not read the book but told TIME: "I suspect Halberstam's biggest problem was that we didn't base our policy on his reporting from Viet Nam. This amateur psychiatry, talking about things like machismo-if that's what he does-is nonsense." Walt Rostow, former Kennedy and Johnson aide and now a professor of history at the University of Texas, has an article in the December Esquire replying to an excerpt from The Best and the Brightest. "From 1961 to 1968," he writes, "I believed the war could only be materially shortened by putting...
Experiments. One mark of that century's rich outpouring of verse was the fact that Americans for the first time dominated poetry written in English. Pound served as a link between what Walt Whitman called "the American yawp" and the sophisticated experiments going on overseas. He was born in Hailey, Idaho. At 15-already 6 ft. tall, with a blazing shock of carrot hair-he entered the University of Pennsylvania to study "eight or nine" languages and flout the regular curriculum. He also met a medical student named William Carlos Williams, and they began poetic experiments together. After...
...dangerously concentrated the nation's power in the presidency, with Congress relegated to a kind of restive passivity. The fault lay not only with the three Presidents who prosecuted the war but with the executive elites with whom they surrounded themselves, hubristic warrior-intellectuals like McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow and Robert MacNamara. Under Lyndon Johnson, at least, there was an odd blending of machismo styles?the President's "coonskin-on-the-wall" Texas mystique with the cooler but no less assertive air of the intellectuals. This "cando" mentality, it may be, suffused the executive thinking, the very traditional American...