Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...role of the U.S., Hoffmann argued, must be to make both sides aware of the other's position by "secret diplomacy" and to put "mild pressure" on both to accept a "mutually face-saving" cease-fire. Considering the past immaturity of U.S. foreign policy, Hoffmann expressed doubt that the Kennedy Administration would prove capable of "enough subtlety" to handle the explosive situation...
...night wore on, crowds gathered outside the Hyannis National Guard Armory, where carpenters had set up a makeshift platform from which Kennedy would make his nationwide victory speech. Pranksters hoisted a stuffed elephant on a telephone pole; newsmen milled about, waiting. Agents of the U.S. Secret Service, assigned to guard the winning candidate, notified the local police that they would move in when certain victory was assured...
...secret to the team's successes this year was an unbroken series of outstanding performances by Mark Mullin. His second in the Big Three meet this year, step-for-step duel and eventual victory over Dartmouth's Tom Laris, and battle over most of the Heps with Brown's victorious Bobby Lowe speak for themselves...
...like the story of the Ten Little Indians. First they were sacred, then divine, then human, and then they were gone. This all took place between the creation of the Sphinx and the birth of Botticelli's Venus. The Egyptians could not know Aristotle, but he knew the secret of the Sphinx, for he laid down the basic dictum of all sacral art-"to depict the hidden meaning of things, not their appearance." It is easy, but incorrect, says Malraux, to think of the Egyptian tombs "as country houses in the Hereafter and the mummies as denizens...
...doing them and myself a disservice to inject myself into the papers." Besides, Roy Thomson is too busy peering through his binocular-thick glasses at more good buys on the world's far horizons. It is an open Fleet Street secret that he has designs on the London Daily Telegraph (circ. 1,220,389), biggest and most popular of London's "quality" dailies. And he has far from satisfied his appetite for papers in the U.S., where he has only eight (biggest: the St. Peters burg, Fla. Times), including five weeklies. Says Thomson longingly : "There are thou sands...