Word: doves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...base line traffic was light to moderate around the McCarthy headquarters. Further up the line draft information was being dispensed and Resistance buttons sold indescriminately. Peace Pets were also on display: a kitty-litter of (predictably) kittens, a dozen dogs, one waterlogged turtle, two gross of goldfish, and a dove were up for grabs...
...opening my mailbox and catching a glimpse of Robert Vickrey's cover portrait of John Updike tumble out [April 26], I was instantly impressed with a feeling of Andrew Wyeth's nostalgic quality. Being a Wyeth fan, I immediately dove into your cover article and was quite pleased with myself and with Robert Vickrey on reading of John Earth's comparison of the artist Wyeth to the author Updike. I am now hurriedly on my way to our library to uncover every novel by Updike I can find...
...hand, is pushed on to stage center by a Large But disjoined paw from the wings. A frantic Dick Nixon, decked out as a magician, thrusts his arm into a hat and plucks out a hairy hawk clutching a bomb. "And voila," says Nixon, "we haul out a dove . . . a dove . . . I'll have to ask you to imagine this is a dove...
...Soggy Dove. In most of his cartoons, Oliphant gets in second thoughts, as it were, by using a little penguin called Punk, who furnishes a kind of subplot. In the underwater cartoon, for instance, a waterlogged dove, bearing a soggy olive branch, tells Punk: "Oh, I just hate this job." Another cartoon shows a striking telephone employee uneasily eying a solid wall of computerized dialing equipment. Down in the corner of the drawing, a miniature repairman informs Punk: "This strike may not work. That machine is a scab." Oliphant admits to using this slightly puerile device to lure the comic...
Thomson discusses the problems of "executive fatigue" and the inertia and "curator mentalities" of many officials as crucial factors in our Vietnam and larger Asian policy. He tells of the "domestication of dissenters" (one employer, Thomson wrote, used to refer to him as his "favorite dove"). And he describes the "effectiveness trap" which "keeps men from speaking out, as clearly or often as they might," in order "to preserve their effectiveness" as another factor leading to the kind of freezing of ideas that is so prevalent in Washington...