Word: broodingness
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Crystallization Point. Plainly, the President was stung by the savagery of the criticism aimed at him. Early in his presidency, he had declared: "I want to do only one thing in this job. I want to unite this country." But a few years later, during a tour of the ranch...
At the White House, after Kennedy had indicated that he would run, Lyndon Johnson lowered his cheerful fa cade. Oscillating in his rocking chair, jingling the coins in his pocket, the President squinted out over the south lawn and told a visitor in brooding tones: "Bobby Kennedy has been a...
Passion and primitivism are also part of the Haitian people's strength. In a Haitian church on Sunday morning, they make no pretense of wealth or sophistication. They don't suffer mal du siecle, they aren't neurotic, introspective, or brooding. They come to church to share the little they...
Yet he himself exudes none of the brooding character or the "passionate disability" of which he writes. "Of course I'm a member of the Establishment,' 'he says. "What do you expect? I'm a professor at Dartmouth; I'm a member of the National Institutes of Arts and Letters...
Brooding over the Viet Nam war last September, Newsweek's Saigon Bureau Chief Everett G. Martin had some harsh words for the Vietnamese. In a two-page piece for his magazine, Martin charged that the Vietnamese troops performed so poorly on their own that they should be completely integrated...