Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cooperative, amiable tone established by Nixon and Johnson immediately after the election was preserved through Inauguration morning, when the Nixons and Johnsons had arranged to meet at the White House for an informal chat before riding together to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for the formal change of command. The trip back?the triumphal parade that was to take the rest of the afternoon?was a box-office success. All 38,000 seats along the line of march were sold in advance...
...perhaps it was, as the militants now say, a false idealism based on the notion that whites could lift blacks with well-meaning, but destructive paternalism. That idea, at least, is now dead, and a new kind of dialogue is developing in which whites help, but do not command the black advance...
...dynastic rivalries among the Army, Navy and Air Force after World War II prompted President Truman to unify the services under a Secretary of Defense. Old Soldier Eisenhower stripped the individual service secretaries of their power to deploy troops. Later, the exigent Robert McNamara took command of all departmental decisions by unifying military-budgetary decisions through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last week Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird, introduced his three service secretaries; all fit the pat tern of administrator now prescribed...
...glory: swishing his stunning robes with epicene pleasure, outwitting a cluster of conniving cardinals or charming his opponents into loyalty and love, reforming the Church singlehanded in a series of staggering coups, then meeting his martyrdom, complete with saintly forgiveness of the murderer. McCowen does all this with a command of technique that is outstanding. His ability to project emotional confusion - notably in two dramatic confession scenes -while maintaining crystalline intelligibility, is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style. Beyond that, he manages to evoke for Rolfe a sense of pity and affection...
SOMETHING more than James Q. Wilson's interest in bureaucracy lies behind this conclusion. In fact, because of the small number of administrators and the absence of any formal chain of command among them, often one does not know what the other is doing (not to mention that no one knows what the Med School is doing until they read the Boston papers). Last summer, for example, the Real Estate Office contracted to sell two houses to a local real estate agent, even though another office had proposed--albeit some time previously--to sell the houses to a neighborhood association...