Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even to neutralists' skeptic eyes, the contrast between Ike's performance and Khrushchev's was stark. Eisenhower's remarks were not particularly eloquent, and invoked no propagandistic emotions: they were in West Point English, basic, clear, specific. Khrushchev (who advised reporters to "bring your lunch") showed the bad habits of speaking to captive audiences. And in showing his underlying hostility to the U.N. as a rival world system, the Russian badly miscalculated. His audience, the new nations of Africa and Asia, is fiercely loyal to the U.N. With little room for positive proposals left...