Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addressing himself thus, Johnson was never more powerful. Other Presidents have lamented the plight of the Negro but have skirted the hard words necessary to describe the depth of the Negro's deprivation. But Johnson believes with Teddy Roosevelt that the Presidency is a "bully pulpit," and with Truman, who once said, "It is only the President who is responsible to all the people." And so, on the night before and straight up to the time he arrived at the Capitol, he dwelt deeply on his subject, dictating, philosophizing, penciling, revising, emphasizing. Now he was ready...
...greatest challenges is facing himself; in today's portraiture the encounter has become stranger and stranger. Freed from the chore of sticking slavishly to the surface likeness, the artist today is free to probe more than skin-deep. The result often produces a psychological study in depth that eludes even the roving camera's eye. Or, in the instance of Raphael Soyer's Homage to Thomas Eakins (opposite), it can bring to life a whole galaxy of familiar figures, bound together by the unifying vision of one man who knew and admired them...
...last year's double-winner, Steve Clark, has been shooting for the Nationals ever since they got third place in the NCAAs last year. This may be the Eli's last chance for some time to come; although they are gaining Don Schollander from their freshmen team, Yale's depth comes almost entirely from seniors like Clark, Roger Goettsche, Dale Keifer, Ed Townsend, and Dave Lyons...
...Depth, spirit, and unity were responsible for the Crimson's success. "The coach Nathaniel L. Harris Jr. '52) was able to play three or four lines in almost every game without risking the team's chances for victory," Kent Parrot, first one center, said yesterday...
With such depth to draw on, the Met can afford to place quality first. The day when donors' private collections were hung in toto is past; the Met insists on constantly upgrading as finer examples become available. Also past are the days when objects were crammed together in unlighted Victorian display cases. To catch the eye of the young (1,000 schoolchildren a day visit the Met by appointment), the museum inaugurated one of the first children's museums in the U.S., with spinning color charts, and a movie of unwrapping a mummy that fascinates even adults...