Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take part in public affairs, to smell the dust and sweat of battle, is surely to stimulate and amplify the historical imagination...
...First Hand. Schlesinger's thousand days amid the dust and sweat of public affairs have now borne fruit in A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. After Kennedy's assassination, the participant reverted to the role of historian, and in 14 months of feverish writing sought to capture on paper the events he had seen at first hand. The result is, by all odds, the best of the 90-or-so Kennedy books that have appeared in the two years since Dallas. It has won Schlesinger critical acclaim and considerable affluence as well. With...
There is no royalty in this for Rachmaninoff, who supplies all the music. If he had only written the lyrics as well, he might have spared himself lines like "Dust the bust of Dostoevsky." And if anyone guessed that there would not be a dance number called Vodka, Vodka! -all knee bends and flying boots-he guessed wrong...
JOHN GARY SINGS YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE SONGS (RCA Victor). He sounds like Muzak with words-a bland, clean-cut voice that has made him a favorite with the over-35 ladies who sent his album sales soaring. All the old standards (Autumn Leaves, Night and Day, Star Dust, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) seem to get the same beat and treatment, making them interchangeable...
...years before it concluded in the fateful Peace of Paris tha established the U.S. as an independent nation. To retrace the incredibly intricate course of this negotiation, Columbia's Professor Richard B. Morris spent five years puttering in French, British and U.S. archives. He came up covered with dust and glory, clutching original documents that compel a radical reinterpretation of Franco-American relations in the revolutionary period...