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...CHRISTINA STEAD 527 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
Many Americans accept as a truism Winston Churchill's famous aphorism - "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." But many foreigners - even if - they seem to have feel lived in that the U.S. democracy, for at a least time in its American incarnation, is not right for them...
...foreign policy and "closeness with the American people." He also has a high regard for John Kennedy as a "much more inspirational President" than Truman, and for Lyndon Johnson's deep concern for the poor and the weak and his skill in pushing legislation through Congress. He spoke of Winston Churchill as the pre-eminent leader of our time, of Charles de Gaulle as uniquely expressing "the ideals and hopes and pride of the French," and of Mohandas Gandhi as the embodiment of "quiet courage...
...BEST parts of 1984 comes when Winston Smith talks about his country's history, how Big Brother is constantly changing who the country's allies are and how the war is progressing. The hero tells himself he can't decide what the history is, he'd better wait until the afternoon news broadcast to find out. Orwell's point in 1984, that a government can keep shifting the terms of its existence, not only historical but linguistic--in Newspeak euphemisms--is an important point and one often stressed by critics of the present U.S. government, who are, for the most...
George Kennan has always been fascinated by the Soviet Union, which Winston Churchill characterized as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." A former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and fellow at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Kennan, 72, is now engaged in his most ambitious effort to solve that riddle. With Princeton Colleagues James Billington and Frederick Starr, he has set up the first major center for Russian studies to open in the U.S. in more than a decade...