Word: ah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faust, as Goethe conceives him, is the image of Western man: man sundered, as Goethe was, by an intolerable antithesis of spirit and substance. Faust cries out: "Two beings ah! within my breast are fighting!" One clings to the earth, one "mightily thrusts upward to the sky." Salvation, for Goethe, lies in man's capacity to reconcile these opposites in creative activity. For creation, for a true birth, the feminine vessel is necessary as well as the masculine spark; but the problem of woman involves the problem of evil; and so Faust sells his soul to the Devil...
...explodin', Violence flarin', and bullets loadin'. You're old enough to kill, but not for votin' . . . If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away. There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave . . . Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction...
...Johnson's jokes more uproariously, or more often, than Lyndon Johnson. Of late, other citizens of the Great Society have minted a whole new genre of L.B.J. stories-at L.B.J.'s expense. Some are moderately sympathetic, such as the yuk that has one Texan saying to another: "Ah think ouh President is absolutely fahn. He's the first President we evah had who doesn't have an accent." Some are moderately malicious. Vice President Humphrey greets the President: "Morning, Lyndon, how are you?" To which Lyndon replies: "Is that all you ever think of, Hubert?" Mostly...
...Despite the new fighting in Kashmir, Prime Minister Shastri was determined to eradicate the causes of the old fighting in the barren Rann of Kutch where Indians and Pakistanis had clashed last spring. But he canceled the scheduled visit of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto to discuss the Rann of Kutch because "no useful purpose" would be served...
...made it over to sample the barbecue spread set out by the President's favorite outdoor cook, Walter Jetton, who rustled up a pretty flamboyant feed of briskets from 200 head of cattle, 600 Ibs. of spareribs, and other Texas refreshments, including 55 gallons of six-shooter coffee. "Ah," grinned one Texan, with typical understatement: "It's so strong it will float...