Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original purpose of the National Gallery picture remains a mystery. Is it a portrait, or is it the image of a saint posed for by a saintly looking model? Very probably it possessed a companion picture or pictures, and all the problems relating to it could be resolved if these should come to light...
Republican Senator John Tower of Texas confided to a dinner companion: "The Calley case could become the best thing that's happened to us politically in years." A colleague, Ohio's Robert Taft Jr., defended what Nixon did as a proper exercise of his powers as Commander in Chief; Taft argued that it was necessary to restore morale in the armed forces and to calm outrage among the civilian populace...
...federal agents need warrants to rig their informants with bugs. Four Justices felt bound by a line of cases holding that an individual has no constitutional right to protection from informers. "Inescapably," wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, "one contemplating illegal activities must realize and risk that his companions may be reporting to the police." White found the addition of a hidden third party to the conversation an unpersuasive argument to challenge the constitutionality of the surveillance. According to White, if a companion may inform, he may also transmit. Justice Hugo Black concurred with the four because...
...indisputable factor in Stravinsky's conversion to serialism was the arrival within his household of Schoenberg's former research assistant, the young American conductor Rober Craft. In addition to becoming Stravinsky's rehearsal conductor, literary collaborator, companion and surrogate son, Craft was the unofficial custodian of the Stravinskian image. In this role especially through a series of remarkable "conversations with" books, he enabled a wide audience to savor the composer's pungent personality...
Many cab riders are determinedly finding merit in the subway. "It's dirty, crowded, airless and awful," says Film Maker Peter Hansen, "but it's fast, and by God it's still cheap [30?]." One elderly woman, climbing the stairs from the 1RT, said to her companion: "I don't know what all the talk is about. I didn't see a single mugging." For others, like Maxwell Dane, a founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach, only the ultimate form of resistance will do. "Walking," Dane suggested to his employees in a memo about the fare...