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...George F. Kennan, 52, author of the postwar policy of containment, Harry Truman's Ambassador to Moscow (1952-53), and Adlai Stevenson's foreign-policy adviser; 2) New York's Governor Averell Harriman, 64, Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Moscow (1943-46), one of the sharpest forecasters of Russian attitudes and intentions during and after World War II, and candidate for nomination as President...
...Jean-Paul Sartre who founded it, it goes without saying that there is a minimum of natter in her chatter. She can be wrongheaded, she can make ridiculous statements (America Day by Day; TIME, Dec. 14, 1953), but even her nonsense is the product of one of the sharpest and best-stocked minds in letters...
Quietly Dropped. Neurologist Bailey used his sharpest scalpels on Sometime Neurologist Freud: "His ideas were often launched with great enthusiasm, like scare headlines in a newspaper, and then quietly dropped without retraction . . . Many of Freud's psychological writings are not scientific treatises, but rather, reveries-a sort of chirographic rumination...
Labor's quiet little dinner party may prove the most instructive lesson of the great visit. Before a knowledgeable audience, it was the sharpest glimpse of the reality behind the beaming smiles of the Kremlin's Traveling Illusionists...
Open Tentflaps. Ike's outline of Republican principles was calculated to appeal to almost everyone and to offend hardly anyone, so much so that it provoked Washington Post's left-wing Democratic Cartoonist Herblock into one of the season's sharpest needlings of G.O.P. generalities (see cut). Among Ike's points: ¶ "The ultimate values of mankind are spiritual. These values include liberty, human dignity, opportunity, and equal rights and justice." ¶ "More jobs and better jobs, a flourishing agriculture, happier living for every family, peace and plenty for all people−these call...