Brooks Atkinson Quotes
We need supermen to rule us .... But alas there are no supermen.
Brooks Atkinson, 1894-1984, Journalist & Critic, Once Around the Sun, 1951
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While the Southerners, and Northern Democrats accused Lincoln of precipitous, hasty and radical actions, radicals of his own party were not happy with him as he didn't move fast and firmly enough.
The Irish Dail (Parliament) had ratified a treaty with England, but President Eamon de Valera and his supporters walked out in protest leaving the “ship” without a “captain.”
Romney was then running for the Republican Presidential nomination, and was taking a shot at President Obama.
The terror to which he referred was to the French Revolution’s executing former aristocrats and then including anyone suspected of monarchist sympathies.
Justin Brooks Atkinson was an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1922 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the theater's most influential reviewer of his time." Atkinson became a Times theater critic in the 1920s and his reviews became very influential. He insisted on leaving the drama desk during World War II to report on the war, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his work as the Moscow correspondent for the Times. He returned to the theater beat in the late 1940s, until his retirement in 1960.
