Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile drive back to New York. He spent the day of Summit recess visiting Niagara Falls. Johnson headed for a political dinner in Los Angeles, where, perhaps a bit too sanguinely, he told his audience: "It is good to sit down and look a man in the eye and try to reason with him and to have him reason with you. Reasoning together was the spirit of Holly Bush...
...capitalist corporation, Kosygin advanced swiftly as an efficient, inventive technocrat of the Stalinist era. He became overall boss of the textile industry in 1939, during the war served as deputy chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of People's Commissars. He soon caught Stalin's eye, and in 1948 became the youngest (43) member of the Politburo...
...severe case of intellectual atherosclerosis. Last week, as some 12,000 of its members pounded the Atlantic City boardwalk between sessions of its annual convention, the A.M.A.'s 242-member house of delegates voted to catch up with the present in several areas, and also cast a constructive eye toward the future...
...young artists in Russia today are gluing together unrealistic collages, op artists are opting for eye-twisting geometry, and there is even a group of painters in their 30s and 40s who throw together unsocialist images just because they feel like it. The Western world sees precious little of their work, for the Moscow Union of Soviet Artists is dominated by middle-aged academicians who learned their trade in the heyday of Stalinist realism. Their ponderous paeans to Lenin and heroic bobbin tenders go into official displays such as the Venice Biennale and Expo 67. Only an occasional private exhibition...
...best of Nicolson remains his eye for the actors around him. Churchill, he tells the reader, cries often, and has a "strange" habit, when speaking to Parliament, of passing "his hands up and down from groin to tummy." Charles de Gaulle, observed in his London exile, has effeminate hands, lacking muscle and arteries in them, but already in 1941 is heard yelling "France, c'est moi!" at Nicolson in the Savoy Hotel. "His arrogance and fascism annoy me," writes Nicolson, "but there is something like a fine retriever dog about his eyes." Laborite Clement Attlee looks "like a snipe...