Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The Olsen Theory. One writer has raised an intriguing doubt that Kennedy was even in the car when it sank in Poucha Pond. Jack Olsen, who is a senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, argues in The Bridge at Chappaquiddick that the Senator stopped the car on the dirt road leading...
IN the diplomat's trade, euphemism is the rule and waspish apothegms a rarity. The late Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to Washington from 1930 through 1939, turns out to have been one of those uncommon envoys with a sharply pointed pencil. He was a career diplomat, the fifth...
Almost 2,000 volumes of once confidential government papers were made public in London last week under a law that permits their disclosure after a period of 30 years. Among them were Sir Ronald's pithy 1939 memoranda to the Foreign Office in London about prominent Americans of the...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A "baffling character" with "the strength of an ox, enormously charming but a poor judge of men. He appears to be extremely obstinate and to dislike opposition. His intellectual powers are really only moderate and his knowledge of certain subjects, particularly finance and economics, is superficial."
Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr.: "100 percent intellectual," but "a specialist in too many subjects to be quite convincing in any one of them." He "had an academic career at Harvard of such distinction that he has never quite recovered from it."