Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stump. Even today he has not forgotten that harrowing year (he won re-election by a margin of only seven-tenths of 1%), and has given his newest acquisition, a cringing, scrawny ivory elephant, the telling title 1964. Says Scott: "He's just waiting for the next blow to rain down on him." The Senator himself does not wait for blows; he delivers them...
...Wallace pulled between 29.8% and 42.8% in three 1964 presidential primaries largely because of racial backlash; in a Referendum the same year, California voters went against open housing, 2 to 1. A Wallace plurality would not endanger Johnson's renomination, of course, but it would be a serious blow to his prestige in a year that promises to be tough enough for the Democrats nationally...
There must be 500 miniskirts swirling around when this longhair composer David Amram sits in with the band to blow I'm Coming, Virginia on the French horn. And there's Allen Ginsberg gassing pretty good with Arthur Miller at a table in the corner, and Norman Mailer won't shut up about his friend Jose Torres, the light-heavyweight fighter who keeps losing. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wants to shut up about Viet Nam but they bug him with it. And there's Charles Addams and David Merrick and maybe a thousand other names all jammed...
...opera Don Rodrigo. Ginastera stacks up thick instrumental clusters, punctuates them with short, stabbing chords, sometimes uses what he calls "clouds," in which orchestra and singers improvise rhythmically suspended, ever-shifting textures. At various points in the piece, the string players clatter their bows on their instruments, the brassmen blow air tonelessly through their mouthpieces, the woodwinds bend notes into piercing quartertones. A 24-voice chorus in the pit sometimes comments on the action or makes weird noises underlining a dramatic moment; during the orgy scene, it sighs, moans, and murmurs the word love in several languages simultaneously...
...know it is threatened by the inability of the present party structure to respond meaningfully to the demands of certain excluded groups, in particular the urban Negro. And the election of any Republican (for any Republican will staff his administration primarily with other Republicans) will be a blow to the prospects of solving America's domestic problems. If that is the price that must be paid to extricate this country from Vietnam, the costs should still be kept as low as possible...