Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more and more thoughtful people are objecting to the triumphal last act, the closer it seems to be. The reason for this lack of excitement at the by-now ritually invoked vision of material Utopia is that it has been held out too often. Today, at least in wintry moments of perception, it comes on as overblown and unconvincing as a TV commercial...
...Kennedy's emotional speeches against the war; he called them "fakery," and once he had dropped Kennedy's name into the conversation he backtracked to praise McCarthy some more. Nixon's advisors had by this time concluded that Kennedy would take the nomination from LBJ, and without any adversaries closer at hand, Nixon was already starting out after Bobby. "I had a great deal of respect for John Kennedy," Nixon said, "but Bobby's not half the man his brother...
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S farewell State of the Union address was very much the kind of performance that we've come to expect from him. The address was full of the old familiar LBJisms--his assurances that peace is closer than ever, his juggled financial statistics, his flagwaving reference to our troops in Asia, his understandable concern over his own place in history...
...might owe him: he reached more than $30,000, then quit figuring. In fact, he was considerably short-changing himself because he assumed that he was still a first lieutenant, not realizing that his promotion schedule rolled on in absentia. His back-pay total will thus probably come closer to $50,000. "I just couldn't believe that I was a first lieutenant and now I wake up a major, like a modern Rip Van Winkle," said Rowe, now 30. Presumably the $20,000 in extra pay will provide some consolation for the fact that Rowe will never know...
...Immigrants and The Emigrants, to be filmed in Sweden, Canada and the U.S. But, though there have been other offers from both European and American film makers, Ullman shows no inclination to be far from her companion. During the making of The Shame, he directed her to move closer to a flaming house. "Burning things were flying over my head," she recalls. "I tried to get a little out of the way from the house. Bergman shouted, 'Don't be so scared, silly woman!' and I hated him for days." You were caught, she was asked, between...