Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several Cabinet wives bring to the capital experience in community service, and in one case a considerable firsthand political background. Lenore Romney has campaigned effectively for her husband George both in Michigan and nationally; Barb Laird, on the other hand, says candidly: "I doubt if many political wives know much more about politics than I do, which is nothing." Both Mrs. Shultz, whose husband has been dean of the University of Chicago graduate business school, and Mrs. Clifford Hardin, married to the incoming Agriculture Secretary and ex-chancellor of the University of Nebraska, are used to the incessant social round...
...deftly brilliant drumming, Fisher's streaking organ, and above it all the presence of Keith Reid who writes all the words, an enigmatic intricate personality, quite possible a troubled genius. Procul Harum are sobering and transcendental, allying glittering jewels of musicianship with their message of melancholia and self-doubt, one of the Sticking Greats...
...million pages of material," he says, "more than any President in history." To the last, Johnson deals in superlatives. "People will look back on these five years as some of the most important in the nation's history," he insists. Of that, at least, there can be little doubt...
...joke. What accounts for its lusty and unabashed survival? Freud suggested that the smutty story verbalizes male aggressive instincts against the highly disturbing opposite sex. Somewhat embellished, this theory lies at the heart of Gershon Legman's Rationale of the Dirty Joke (Grove Press; $15), which beyond all doubt qualifies as the most bizarre book of research in recent years. Legman's study is an 811-page anthology of dirty jokes, complete with explanatory texts, notes on dates and country of origin, and references to leading variations...
...students remain a passive audience at Faculty meetings, then no one will be playing to the gallery," Roger D. Thomas, a fifth-year graduate student in Geology said. "I doubt if any actor can play to an audience that doesn't respond," he added...