Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scarcely time out for a round of congratulations, the candidate plunged into a round robin of meetings with advisers, aides and party leaders about the vice-presidential nomination. Ten days earlier, he had sent notes to a number of supporters, asking them to send suggestions to a post office box in New York, "anonymously, if you prefer." Whether he got any ideas from that source was not clear, but he did arrive in Miami with Agnew definitely on his mind...
...Boxes. Rockefeller's position is not so sanguine. Already well into his third term, he will undoubtedly think twice before seeking an unprecedented fourth in 1970. A Senate seat is even less likely. One New York Senate seat will be voted on this fall, while for the other, Rockefeller will soon appoint a successor to the late Robert Kennedy. With his limitless fortune, Rockefeller is not dependent on the normal political bases, however. He could thus retire in 1970 and still, at 64, go after the presidential nomination in 1972, assuming, of course, that he would be opposing President...
...battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended for a beekeeper in Columbus, Ga., the parcel had mysteriously acquired the doctor's address en route. In Los Angeles, a couple delightedly opened a two-pound box of Dutch chocolates, only to find a soupy goo inside. Their gift had languished for six months in a local postal warehouse before delivery...
...Exist (Quadrangle; $5), presents his dark vision in a series of highly personal, paradoxical meditations that almost defy criticism and can only be categorically accepted or rejected. An unsystematic thinker who refers to his essays as "fragments," Cioran (pronounced Cho-ran) presents his arguments in ironic, aphoristic prose (see box). It is rather as if Dostoevsky had written Notes from Underground in the style of Pascal's Pensees. Although his gloom has affinities, with existentialism, Cioran is hard to pigeon hole; his eclectic thought contains echoes of all philosophic history, from the pre-Socratics to the mystics...
...announced repeatedly that record numbers of people had flocked to the Newport Folk Festival this year, and each time the anouncement was made the crowds cheered themselves with an enthusiasm reserved only for artists of the most reknown. The success of the box office, however, did not insure the success of the festival, and the vast numbers in attendance were just so many witnesses to the end of an era and the demise of an institution...