Word: bold
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nixon had saved a few bold foreign-policy promises for the final fortnignt's campaigning. In Toledo Nixon promised, if elected, to ask Ike on Nov. 9 to send Cabot Lodge off to Geneva as U.S. negotiator at the two-year-old Geneva atom-test talks. If the talks succeeded, there would be a summit. If they failed by Feb. 1, "the U.S. will be prepared to detonate atomic devices necessary to advance our peaceful technology." In Muskegon, Mich, next day, Nixon promised, if elected-in a manner reminiscent of Ike's "I will go to Korea...
...with a national roller-coaster ride across the New Frontier. Kennedy is well aware of the political grace period-he thinks it is about 90 days-for a new Administration, plans to move fast, with a far-reaching program of social and economic legislation at home and some bold ventures in the field of foreign policy and national defense. His first concern is to beef up and streamline the armed forces. And, sidestepping the nations of Western Europe, he gives his highest foreign policy priority to aid programs for Latin America ("They've been shortchanged"), India and Africa...
...plans were bold, and bolder still was the willingness to discuss them with the election still to be won. But then, if John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been shy. retiring and modest, he never would have got to the point where they were worth discussing...
...said, "I want to thank you for mentioning my grandfather." Speechless, for once in his long and voluble career, Copeland turned to the headmaster and demanded why he had not been informed that there was a Lodge in the audience. The headmaster, possibly encouraged by Cabot's bold example, replied dryly that he had not expected Copey to descend to such a personal attack...
...more deplorable casualties of current writing is the happy childhood. Still, there must be some adults who were happy kids, and occasionally a writer is bold enough to stand and be counted. English Poet Laurie Lee made no bones about the joy of his poverty-stricken youth in The Edge of Day (TIME, March 28). Now Marcel Pagnol, a French Academician and man of film and theater (Fanny, The Baker's Wife), writes with uninhibited pleasure of a Provence boyhood. By his account, it was so lacking in bitterness that, to Freudian critics, it will seem downright square...