Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moynihan himself is a historian by training (Ph.D., Tufts, '61), sociologist by bent, politician by inclination, and intellectual gadfly by design. He stirred a furor that has not yet subsided with a 1965 report on the disintegration of the Negro family. When he turned 40 last March, his Cambridge staff placed an array of hats on his desk with the note: "To the only man we know who could wear them all so well...
...production is chiefly of interest to students of scenic design. John Braden's lush imagination has ushered forth a superb French rococco doctor's office and an oversize roadster, whose potboiling sound effects drown out many of the lines in the first act. Of course, Mr. Braden is often putting on a show of his own, but in the desolate land of witless farce, the set designer is king...
Shadows & Warts. Sometimes the Post Office does heed its mail. When last year's 5? George Washington brought protests, the department agreed that "the stamp needs a bit of face lifting." Last month it doctored the shadows and warts in the design...
...stamp designs (for which commissioned artists receive $1,000) are reviewed by the Postmaster General's eleven-member Stamp Advisory Council, which is trying to avoid turkeys like the 1948 stamp celebrating the poultry industry. Still, the department must occasionally wince and yield to pressures from Capitol Hill. In 1966, Louisiana's Representative Jimmy Morrison, chairman of the House postal-rate subcommittee, wanted a stamp commemorating the Great River Road that runs from Canada to New Orleans along the Mississippi-and right through his district. Larry O'Brien, needing Morrison's support for a parcel-post...
...that rose vertically from the field like a helicopter, for about 150 feet, then darted off in near-supersonic flight; in the West, only the French Mirage III-V and the British P.1127 have a comparable performance. The Russians also showed off a new swing-wing fighter, similar in design to the controversial U.S. F-111 (originally known as the TFX), that was designed to operate from rough, short runways. All the new fighter-bombers in the flyby were equipped with auxiliary engines for quick take-offs from short, unsurfaced fields...