Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? Mr. Schlesinger's most recent literary contribution to the campaign, will not enhance his status in the Republican Party; nor, however, is it likely to endear him to those who want to raise the level of the campaign. A wildly partisan essay, Kennedy or Nixon? adds nothing substantially new to the campaign, and tends to detract from Mr. Schlesinger's reputation as an historian. In a brief foreword, the professor confesses his political bias, but adds, "I will rest my argument whenever possible on hard and verifiable facts...
Once every four years, the Mr. Hyde in Arthur Schlesinger emerges and he abandons the genteel ivory towers of scholarship for the noisy partisan rigors of politics. This year, according to Mr. Nixon, he and his fellow triumvirs Galbraith and Bowles have also deserted the Democratic Party. Mr. Nixon weeps, "The Democratic Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Wilson is not the Democratic Party of Schlesinger, Galbraith and Bowles." Kennedy's three top advisors have led him astray into a morass of "liberalism" and huge government spending, and, if one is to believe the vice-President, America can not and will...
...speech, Nixon adds a few fresh, homey touches and local references, culled from his information-crammed notebooks on every campaign stop. He bears down heavily on patriotism, and, growing solemn, flatters his audiences by talking seriously to them. One favorite technique is to read a letter from a local partisan. In a Flint, Mich, parking lot last week, the letter was from Linda McGrain, 13, who wanted one of the Nixon family's new kittens. She would get her wish, said Nixon with a grin, provided it would not cost him her mother's vote. With that...
...Party, considers himself the Bulgarian Khrushchev and, like his hero, is fond of making trips into the countryside to pose as the peasants' folksy friend. In Zhivkov's case, the effect is diminished by monotone oratory and a repugnant personality. A onetime printer and World War II partisan leader, chunky Todor Zhivkov, 49. is cold, humorless and conceited. Under his leadership, Bulgaria has become the only European satellite which has successfully herded virtually all its peasants onto collective farms; it is also one of the few countries in the world that possesses fewer cattle now than...
...Politics of Upheaval, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. In the third volume (covering 1935-36) of his series, The Age of Roosevelt, as in its predecessors, the author sometimes confuses history with hagiography; but if the work is partisan, it is also sweepingly and spiritedly written...