Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SING (Elektra) and perhaps more is sung by Songwriter Phil Ochs, who moves in the same circles as Bob Dylan and, like him, is a disciple of Woody Guthrie. Only 23, Ochs has put to music most of yesterday's headlines: Too Many Martyrs (about Medgar Evers), Talking Cuban Crisis and even the Automation Song. The songs most likely to last are poetic if heavy protests like Knock on the Door, an indictment of Soviet terror, and Lou Marsh, a ballad about a social worker murdered in Spanish Harlem...
...mansion home of the chief of state, it somehow seemed a remarkable affair. But for Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson it all fit easily and naturally as a woodsman's felt crusher. In seven months in the White House they have put on at least 25 major wingdings, including eight state dinners-each with a minimum of preening, a maximum of fun and easy conviviality. After all, who else in the world could comfortably mix Jimmy Durante, John Dos Passes and David Rockefeller with a teen-age twist party...
...behind when he fled to West Germany a year ago. Pondering various schemes to get Barbara out, he had hit on the idea of finding a West German girl who resembled her closely, luring the girl to East Berlin and then filching her documents. Winsome Dorothea Voss seemed to fit the bill, and the scheme worked perfectly. Once in West Berlin the reunited couple sped to Tempelhof Airport and winged their way to West Germany...
...personality. Without citing any evidence, Author Possony argues that the "evidence indicates" Lenin's grandfather "was born a Jew." Fischer places the responsibility where it belongs, on the Soviet government. "The records were undoubtedly available in Russia's bulging archives," he writes, "but the Bolsheviks saw fit to suppress them. This feeds the suspicion that there is something to conceal...
...help to this scene). At one point his malformed hand spastically grabs his cross and must be pried off with the other. While Hastings is being beheaded he gnaws on a chicken leg. After Tyrrel reports carrying out his killings as ordered, Richard puts on a brief weeping fit. And on the eve of battle he sits caressing his deformed leg with his deformed hand. Vocally, Watson does laudably on the whole, though he should not throw away such a crucial line as "I'm not in a giving vein today...