Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everywhere last week Humphrey preached the politics of unity and consensus. Even Actress Ann-Margret failed to distract him from the theme during a Minneapolis celebration of Svenskar Dag (Day of the Swedes...
...that Rockefeller was allowing any such thoughts to distract him from his hard-fought, late-starting drive. Through the week, he swept from New England to the Great Plains to Arkansas and Texas, bringing to 35 the number of states he has visited since he rejoined the race. He cracked jokes and lobster in Maine, clanged through the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, in a fireman's hat, was greeted on the green in New Haven, Conn., by Sybil, a seven-year-old elephant with a Rockefeller sticker on her trunk, and dropped in at the famous Humphrey drugstore...
...HAVE been very faithful to the technique. As weeks went by, and nothing happened, I became a little restless and doubtful. My newspaperman's cynicism began infecting my hopes. But that didn't distract me, because Jerry Jarvis has repeatedly emphasized that no amount of doubt or resistance can thwart meditation--it is a mechanical process, right? But as time wore on, and I met other people who had stopped meditating, or weren't noticing any change, I began learning certain truths about Transcendental Meditation as a practice and as a movement. Now, after three and a half months...
...restrained than usual, he still indulged in a great deal of theatrical breathing and a series of almost grotesque attempts at beatific smiles at moments whose exquisiteness he seemed particularly desirous of pointing out to the audience. The trouble with these antics is threefold: they are aurally and visually distracting, especially in a room the size of the Kirkland JCR; they are didactic and insulting to an audience generally capable of appreciating Bach's subtleties on its own; and, most important, they are bound to distract a performing musician from his real business, which is to channel his expressiveness into...
...night the shooting begins-sometimes sporadic potshots across the DMZ, sometimes concentrated bursts from infiltrators on probing missions. Some infiltrators like to throw stones at guardposts or flick small flashlights to distract the occupants or draw fire so that they can see where gun emplacements are set up. "We get little nibbles all the time," says Captain Daub...