Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call him "Gene," as New York musicians call Bernstein "Lenny"); in rehearsals, he treats them with a firm but gentle hand. On the podium, he uses no baton and, with his right hand liberated, gives his deepest concentration to color and balance. Perhaps as a result, his tempos sometimes drift...
James, like Leary, was concerned with investigating exceptional mental states. "The whole drift of my education," he wrote, "goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one of the many worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for life also...
...York Standard, a puerile sheet that appears to be a cross between the Ohio State Lantern and the Hadassah News Letter. The Newark News, a more than adequate paper, has stopped shipping papers to the city because it loses money on them. A few other second-rate newspapers drift in but they aren't much help...
...article headed "Doubt and Drift Grip Washington," Reston reported: "A strange kind of malaise now pervades Washington. Not only at the top of the Administration, but down through the Congress as well, there is a feeling that something is seriously wrong...
...Howard Linn, recently showed a trace of the old "everything is rosy" spirit. "We've got a brand-new rest home," she said. "We've got two good hospitals. We've got two good funeral homes, one of them remodeled last year." Then she saw the drift of what she was saying. "Yes," she admitted. "It's a dead town. We know...