How To Use Kennan In A Sentence
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In dealing with the Soviet Union, in trying to analyze its objectives and capabilities, we continue to tread, as George Kennan wrote in his diary in 1950, “in the unfirm substance of the imponderables.”
Interpretations of American History
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Villa Kennan, with a pang of disappointment at such rebuff, forwent her overtures for the moment, and listened to what tale Jacob Henderson could tell of his dog.
CHAPTER XXXIV
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Recalled to Washington, Kennan was put in charge of a new Policy Planning Office in the state department.
Uncontainable
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Mr. Gaddis's admiration for Kennan is obvious, but it does not stop him from portraying his subject's flaws— an immense ego, a deep insecurity, a volatile temperament.
Uncontainable
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In that flashing glimpse, even as he reined and spurred to make his own horse leap sidewise out from under, Harley Kennan observed the scratched skin and torn clothing, the wild-burning eyes, and the haggardness under the scraggly growth of beard, of the man-hunted man.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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No summary can do justice to this hilarious book—Kennan's wit never fails him, just as a companion from California never fails, no matter how catastrophic the Siberian winter turns, to claim that he has seen "worse storms in the Sierra Nevadas.
Five Best: Larry McMurtry
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Kennan barely managed acceptance to Princeton University but proved to be a good student, though a social misfit disconnected from the culture of the elite eating clubs.
Uncontainable
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In ways that this biography seems not entirely to appreciate, Kennan's far-sighted opposition to American over-militarisation makes his personal career history less gripping than his legacy.
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Kennan wrote a memoir that had enough literary merit to be turned into a play.
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At the age of ninety, Kennan published Around the Cragged Hill.
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The New York Times obituary quotes Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis, Kennan's authorized biographer: ‘He'll be remembered as a diplomatist and a grand strategist of the cold war.’
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Kennan, a bowline around his body under his arm-pits, lowered by a couple of seamen down the generous freeboard of the Ariel, who gathered in by the nape of the neck the smooth-coated Irish terrier that, treading water perpendicularly, had no eyes for him so eagerly did he gaze at the line of faces along the rail in quest of the one face.
CHAPTER XX
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Reporting that George Kennan was the architect of the plan for a closer relationship, they implied that Bohlen had opposed it.
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At the age of ninety, Kennan published Around the Cragged Hill (WW Norton, 1994).
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Kennan would never again be a full-time policy conceptualizer.
Uncontainable
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Any indignity that Villa Kennan chose to inflict upon him he was throbbingly glad to receive, such as doubling his ears inside out till they stuck, at the same time making him sit upright, with helpless forefeet paddling the air for equilibrium, while she blew roguishly in his face and nostrils.
CHAPTER XXI
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He also fancies himself a playwright, and approaches the well-heeled Mr. Dangle (Darragh Kennan) and the waspish Mr. Sneer (Jonathan Smoots), a pair of opinionated connoisseurs, in the hopes of enlisting their support for his latest effort, a tragedy called "The Spanish Armada" that ranks alongside "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" as the worst play ever written.
Those Who Cannot Do…
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Instead, Kennan diplomatically absorbed, without mentioning, that instance of cutthroat competition in his reference to free-enterprise, unguided by federal policy.
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Europe's evil genie, said people like Kennan, Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and future ERP Ambassador Averell Harriman, was nationalism.
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By this point, Kennan had embarked on a second career as America's foremost public intellectual.
Uncontainable
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Mr. Gaddis captures the full range of Kennan's life and career and reveals the complicated inner personality behind the public mask.
Uncontainable
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Stymied at both ends, Kennan resigned after two frustrating years.
Uncontainable
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The boy and the old man met only once, but the elder Kennan established a career template for the younger.
Uncontainable
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Likewise Michael came to know what Harley Kennan never did know and always denied as existing on his ranch -- the one rocky outcrop, in the dense heart of the mountain forest, where a score of rattlesnakes denned through the winters and warmed themselves in the sun.
CHAPTER XXXV
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No reason we shouldn't make a quartette of it," remarked Harley Kennan, as with his own voice he joined in.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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They're doing honor to the great home state of Liberace and George Kennan and, more to the point, Fighting Bob La Follette.
Ethan Casey: On Wisconsin: The View from Pakistan
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Kennan's name is inseparable from the doctrine of containment that influenced American foreign policy throughout the Cold War.
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For two days he had laired and rested, sleeping much, in the wildest and most inaccessible precincts of the Kennan Ranch.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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The reader should know," writes Henry Kissinger in his lengthy coronation of John Lewis Gaddis's "magisterial" biography of the American foreign-policy seer and remonstrant George Kennan in the November 13 New York Times Book Review, "that for the past decade, I have occasionally met with the students of the Grand Strategy seminar John Gaddis conducts at Yale and that we encounter each other on social occasions from time to time.
Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale
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In ways that this biography seems not entirely to appreciate, Kennan's far-sighted opposition to American over-militarisation makes his personal career history less gripping than his legacy.
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Kennan, as one of major diplomats of the Cold War era and the architect of America's containment policy toward the Soviet Union, was clearly an intellectual of historic stature whose views about America's role in the world had helped to shape his country's destiny.
Uncontainable
