Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous involvement in diplomacy-several German papers referred to him as an unbeschrie-benes Blatt (blank page)-is not a drawback as far as Nixon is concerned. He intends to be his own policymaker in foreign affairs; most Presidents are. Nixon has often called diplomacy his "strong suit," the field in which he will "call the turn," and does not need another John Foster Dulles. He does need an able administrator to run, and, if possible, streamline a disorganized department, a skilled and well-liked advocate on Capitol Hill, a shrewd and discerning representative in dealings with allies and foes...
...dear Distraught, characters and plots are pieces, and Our Author cannot deal with pieces. He must present the Life-Stream, the Continuum. But all our feeble intellects can perceive are pieces, so what could He do? I'll tell you what He did--He built for us a blank-white-nothing plain, peopled by two, maybe four-five hollow Kewpie Dolls. Very warm dolls, but hollow. Scattered on the white plain are hundreds of little tags, some of them hard to make out, but all right there. One will...
Last week Wilbur recounted what he had been told as a grad student at Harvard, wherein we are told: "Show, don't tell." Then he read a long narrative poem in blank verse which first appeared in the New Yorker last year, and which I remember was about someone telling an insomniac how to get to sleep. What I had not remembered was that the poem explained much more, was a defining of perception and a sad discussion of his art. "What you must manage is to bring to life/ A landscape not worth looking at." "Nor must you dream...
...rule...it's traditional" was seen as a shocking alternative to national dialogue. To see the physical presence of these students as an ultimatum was an awful misunderstanding on the part of the administration. And it was these students who, in response to the administration's blank wall ultimatum, sat in at Paine Hall...
There Northshield -- surrounded by two dozen blank monitors that had been intended to carry outside events live--supervised a rapid editing before the film was finally aired...