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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hotel suite in what the New York Herald Tribune called a "little summit.'' Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., honored De Gaulle in his own language; Mayor Wagner, not to be outdone, quoted from Victor Hugo; and the New York Times ran the complete text of De Gaulle's speech in French. For dinner, the Waldorf's candlelit Grand Ballroom was crammed with the high-angled names of the city's society. At the "April in Paris'' Ball at the Astor, socialites shelled out $150 a ticket only to find themselves...
...colonnaded University of Virginia's decidedly nonpartisan Founder's Day, Stevenson launched a thoroughly partisan attack on the President. (Such is his prestige in academic circles that he is probably the only politician who would try and not be condemned for such daring.) In his text, sent ahead by special delivery to Washington correspondents, Stevenson also made three barbed references to his prime personal and political foe, Richard Nixon. But at the last moment he edited out Nixon's name, referred to him instead as "the Vice President." He also cut such tough lines as "Our leadership...
...book's panoramic text, which sometimes lapses into newscaster's jargon ("All Russia was in anarchy"), Author Duncan tries to capture more than 800 years, but his pictures tell a more revealing story-ropes of pearls, rather like fetters; Empress Anna's cathedral bell, a 200-ton monument to Old Russia, damaged by fire in 1737 and never hung; the golden crowns gorged with diamonds-all these are works of art. Yet this is art not as communication but as excommunication, a barrier defining the unbridgeable distance between the rulers' unlimited power and the cowed abasement...
Dissenters will find another complaint: Fadiman paints the glories of the written word in a style that is as flat and as patronizing as a high school history text...
...would be the first to be threatened, for "not even a mad German militarist would risk war with us." When he had finished his ten-minute airport invitation to France to join a new alliance with him, he explained to General de Gaulle: "I too can speak without a text-that will come...