Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustrated about; I'm against them too. That goes beyond saying, 'If someone lies down before a limousine I'd run him over.' Anybody who says that shouldn't be President." In fact, he told reporters, no man who talks that way "is even fit to be President." Nixon's crowds were uniformly large, but for the moment, it was Humphrey's campaign that seemed livelier-if only in contrast to his dismal showing earlier...
...would trace out his python-long melodies, then weave dissonance into dissonance, then unravel the whole thing and start again. His long opera The Sunken Bell (1923) occupied his time for 13 years. And just when it was near completion, Ruggles threw the score aside in a furious fit of dissatisfaction and abandoned it forever. That helps to explain why he has produced only eight works that total a mere 90-minutes' worth of music-which in turn explains why so few Americans have ever heard of Ruggles or his work...
...bullet-nose DS, were highly successful in the 1950s and early 1960s, when automanic Frenchmen would wait months for a car. That situation no longer exists, but Pierre Bercot, an able but conservative executive who became Citroën's boss ten years ago, has not yet seen fit to modernize old models...
...even a neutral state of apathy. Instead, it is the agonizing limbo of double consciousness, or realizing that both Southern Myths are real. In itself, the recognition of both sides is not surprising. What is shattering is finding that one Southern town, one store, or one drawling person can fit into both schemes, and that by artful manipulation, an observer can extract the puree of both dreams from any given situation...
...dreams have always had a regional distribution in the South: Virginia and Tennessee seem to fit the Hospitality pattern well, while Alabama and Mississippi have to be the natural haunts of the lurking Klansmen. Southerners, of course, are aware of this. And those in the Deep South respond with an even more aggressive Southern Hospitality than the kind Virginia dispenses with quiet confidence. And so it is in Alabama and Mississippi that the Southern schizophrenia--the simultaneous existence of the two myths--is most apparent...