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Even in the company of men whose lives and works have been devoted to evil, Walter Ulbricht stands out as a man without warmth or sentiment, humor or mercy. "In Ulbricht," wrote a commentator who found some redeeming features in other German Communists, is "only the worst." Another once described him thus: "Ulbricht is the kind of man who wants to enter a house which is guarded by a policeman at the front door, then decides it is easier to go in by the back door. He first begs a slice of bread, then seduces the maid, cleans...
Kirk tells his story of the conservative stream with the warmth that belongs to it. Even Americans who do not agree may feel the warmth-and feel, perhaps, the wonder of conservative intuition and prophecy, speaking resonantly across the disappointing decades...
Send My Baby Back to Me (Judy Garland; Columbia). Songstress Garland wallops out a bouncing song with lots of charm; the second side, Without a Memory, has all of the old vibrating Garland warmth...
...almost completely free of the little distractions which often mar nonprofessional appearances. But its real significance lay deeper: Ike, articulate and perfectly at ease, had engineered a successful new method of political communication from the White House to the U.S. The show provided a perfect projection of his friendliness, warmth and underlying firmness. Within the hour politicos were predicting, with partisan delight or partisan foreboding, that he could make TV a formidable political weapon in the future...
...administration), initiating and carrying out consistent policies. vigorous in their aptness to the present and striking in their maintenance of Harvard's best traditions. . . . A Provost must somehow secure confidence while playing politics, a feat which Mr. Buck accomplished with astonishing success. . . . It is a rare combination, ruthlessness and warmth; but from this paradox of character have come most of the advances by which Harvard has retained its place as the foremost American college...