Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From a near-stage balcony box, Jackie seemed to enjoy scenes stolen from her own life: Nanette Fabray portraying a globetrotting First Lady now riding an elephant, now watching a cobra fight a mongoose. Back in the theater's nooks and crannies, men guarding the presidential box laughed aloud at lyrics to The Secret Service Makes Me Nervous. President Kennedy did not arrive until the start of the second act; Jackie tried to fill him in, but he still spent much of his time studying his program, later gamely asserted that the musical was "very good." To avoid hurt...
...devoted Moslem, he neither smokes nor drinks. Once divorced, he is presently married to a 24-year-old Palestinian Arab beauty, who is now at a finishing school in London. As he took the presidential chair last week, Zafrulla recognized the strains of his post. "0 Allah," he prayed aloud in Arabic, "expand my chest. Make my task easy. Grant me eloquence so that they may understand...
...French. On another occasion, De Gaulle despaired aloud: "How can you govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?" The French, he complains, "think only about stuffing themselves and living better," adding: "This is hardly a national purpose." On the other hand, he shrugs: "Every Frenchman wants to have one or two special privileges. That's his way of showing his passion for equality...
...West for once had made the Russians knuckle under, instead of vice versa. "Well, whaddya know," guffawed a G.I. "The Mets finally won a ball game." Whether it was even a moral victory was doubtful. Many a critic of the West's painfully cautious Berlin policy wondered aloud why the Russians were not ordered to go back to riding buses and to stop driving armored cars into West Berlin...
...Amazing & Dissonant." Delighted Republicans found it impossible to hold their silence. Arizona's Barry Goldwater sarcastically wondered aloud whether ex-Republican Morse was considering a switch back to the G.O.P. side of the aisle. Illinois' mellow-voiced Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen arose to "protect" Mansfield against Morse. "Let me pay tribute to the humility and forbearance of the majority leader," said Republican Dirksen. "I know what a humble character he is. He has made an effort to harmonize 100 diverse personalities in the U.S. Senate. O great God, what an amazing and dissonant 100 personalities there...