Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Cleveland and Eisenhower, however, presided over what Nixon called a "simpler past." Whether the Cleveland concept will work in the complicated present will not be clear for many months, perhaps not until Jan. 20, 1973. By then, there may even be a fourth approach to the presidency, a distinctively Nixonian philosophy. The President has already surprised many people. "I knew, or thought I knew, Nixon in the 1950s," says Rossiter, whose The American Presidency has become a standard college text. "I thought I knew him in 1962; I thought I knew him during the last campaign...
...popularly elected village elders and landlords. "I tried to evolve a system that was too idealistic or too unrealistic," Ayub said of the arrangement, which was based on the fact that four-fifths of Pakistan's 125 million people are illiterate. Still, Ayub was now prepared to clear the way for a parliamentary system of the sort that governed Pakistan before his takeover in 1958. He urged his guests to put off their demands for other reforms until a new Parliament could be elected...
...continuing wave of campus disorders makes it clear that to the new extremists, the enemy is not the conservative or the reactionary but the liberal. John Bunzel, a liberal political scientist at San Francisco State College, has been repeatedly shouted down in class; his two cars have been smeared with paint and their tires slashed; a bomb was placed outside his office. An S.D.S. student told him why: "You are a perfect symbol. You are over 40, you are white, and you have a doctor of philosophy degree. You are visible, in that you speak your mind in public...
...black-clad psychopath (Larry Bryggman) who calls himself Terrible Jim Fitch and robs churches for a living. Lonesome Sally is in a state of shock; Terrible Jim has already cut up her face, and during his long rant of self-justification and jaunty mockery and bewildered rage it becomes clear that her revenge will be to maneuver him into murdering her. Unfortunately, the tension and terror of the situation are repeatedly canceled by Terrible Jim's wry wisecracks about his life and times as a "churchman...
Major? She has proclaimed no new doctrines, founded no new school. But with this show, she has demonstrated that she has a clear and distinctive talent of high skill, great beauty and the kind of excitement that comes with the sense that the end is not yet in sight...