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To Allen Welsh Dulles, who died at 75 of pneumonia in a Washington hospital last week, the gathering and interpretation of intelligence was vital to American survival in a threatening world. He modestly described his risky, arcane calling as a "craft" but pursued it with an unrelenting enthusiasm and expertise...
Laing's polemic style and anti-Establishment vision have made him one of the New Left's favorite thinkers, along with Marxist Ideologue Herbert Marcuse and Social Critic Paul Goodman. His reputation in his profession is less secure. Many psychiatrists consider his social extrapolations most unscientific; his nonclinical...
Ultimately, Waspism may be more a state of mind, a pattern of behavior, than a rigid ethnic type. Some non-Wasps display all the characteristics normally associated with the most purebred Wasps. Consciously or not, they are Waspirants. Many people were surprised to learn that Edmund Muskie, who talked and...
Halsey Edge was a small scrawny man of fifty-something, with a pinched yellow face and no hair at all. He called himself "a ghoul by profession and inclination"--his only joke, if that is what it was--by which he meant he was an archaeologist, and he was very...
PAULING is the book's hero-at-a distance (when he dines with Pauling near the end of the book Watson proudly writes that Pauling prefers his youthful company to Crick's). But Watson's other scientist-characters are viewed from up close, and you can smell them. From the...