Word: warriorism
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...outward appearances, Colby is unsuited for dirty tricks. "I'd call him an enlightened cold warrior," says a CIA officer. "But remember that this business is cold." In 1971, Colby went back to the CIA labyrinth in Langley...
...Rockies along the South Platte River in Colorado. His aim is to use the territory around the South Platte as a means of describing nothing less than the evolution of the American West. When he has disposed of prehistory, Michener introduces his first human character, an Arapaho warrior named Lame Beaver, born in 1747. By the time the book arrives at 1972-with doleful references to Watergate and the ecological crisis-Michener has some 70-odd more chief human characters, along with hundreds of bit players. They include all the tribes of the West, Homerically described: the French trappers...
FOREIGN POLICY. The new President was a steadfast cold warrior in the 1950s and a particularly hard-beaked hawk during the Viet Nam War. Yet when Richard Nixon began winding down U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and moving toward détente with the Soviet Union, Ford staunchly defended those policies on the floor of the House. He also approved Nixon's overtures to Peking, but concedes that he would not have made them had he been President then. "Not with my record of 23 years' opposition [to Communism]," he told a reporter. "But I approve...
There is no more pugnacious Watergate warrior than Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who insists that Nixon has only himself to blame for his troubles. Yet Bradlee owns that the press is emerging from the scandal with a "black eye." The volume and complexity of the material, he says, have "made public digestion impossible." He also feels that newsmen generally
...will probably play both warrior and drunk. In fact, he is a quiet, ambitious realist. "I want to cram everything into my life. I think it goes back to what I started with. I was nothing as a person and I had nothing. What could I be by the time I was 70? I thought, I am going to live. I don't want anything left at the end that I wanted to do. I want the marvelous knowledge that when I am finished, I have done everything...