Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a rainbow display of his kaleidoscopic personality, Johnson was by turns wryly humorous, cautious, defensive, patriotic and pugnacious. "I don't want any damned Dienbienphu," he warned the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a White House discussion of Khe Sanh, cross-examining them at great length about the...
No Prancing. Last week in Manhattan, Resnik returned to what is by all odds the finest of her 77 roles, stepping into the title part of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Carmen. Her Carmen is far from the flippant vixen so often projected by younger singers. "Carmen...
Died. Cyrus S. Ching, 91, first director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. "My policy," said Ching, "is moderation, cooperation, and sit down and talk it over." For more than half a century-first as negotiator for the Boston El., later as...
Rudolph began the much-damned new pattern as a temporary measure last summer, to allow construction of the Cambridge St. underpass. The rotary is unpopular with residents of streets bordering on the Common, and the Council has told the traffic director to revert to the former pattern as soon as...
Few Hay Tedders. His private life was deplorable. He married Jane Burden, a beautiful but unusually stupid woman who had been his model when he was half thinking of being a painter. The daughter of a groom, she devoted most of her life to having the vapors and impersonating one...