Word: ev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, her thoughts center on her parents' happiness together. Her mother, Becky, had been a spirited girl from West Virginia who named her child for the state flower and journeyed back ev ery summer of her life. But these memories are overwhelmed by images of Becky's slow, painful death and the Judge's powerlessness to comfort...
L.B.J. could mimic Bill Fulbright ("the stud duck of the opposition"), Ev Dirksen and even Bob Kennedy until your sides ached with laughter. He knew men as no other national leader did. He knew their bank accounts, their mistresses, foibles, skills, their very hearts. Just how did he manipulate the Senate in 1957 to produce the first civil rights bill in almost a hundred years? For those of us in the gallery, it was an awesome display of leadership. How did he feel, and where did he go, and with whom did he talk when the moment came...
There were times in the Cabinet room when Ev Dirksen and the President would lean across the mahogany and look each other in the eye and make a deal and nobody watching them would know exactly what it was or how they had arrived at it, but they would know that the die had been cast. That kind of reading might even keep Harvard awake...
...logic, implies primitive philosophical concepts tied to the prescientific past. All this leads to emotional disturbances and frustrations, known as semantic shock. Korzybski prescribed some mental tricks to guard against this disorder. Take, for instance, the old hit song: "Falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful . . . in ev'ry way." A general semanticist following Korzybski's rules to the extreme would render the line thus: "Fallings in love3 are wonderful, they are wonderful [to me] in a great many ways...
Last week the irrevocability of Jewish control was pushed a giant step further. Israeli Housing Minister Ze'ev Sha-ref announced that the government would construct 19,500 apartments for about 100,000 people in three outlying districts (see map]. The government, Sharef said bluntly, is determined that Jerusalem remain "an emphatically Jewish city. This is a plan with a Jewish goal. This is a Zionist exhibition...