Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overlooked by the Lincoln Memorial, the festival holds forth as a patchwork of Americana to show the nation's ethnic roots from abroad and their perpetuation in American history. The Smithsonian's scholars reject with a shudder the "melting pot" concept of America. They believe in an ethnically diverse, pluralistic nation to which scores of cultures have supplied the pieces that make up the American mosaic...
Another proposal, put forth in a bill by Texas Democratic Representative Eligio de la Garza, is to kill the Postal Service and bring back the old Post Office under total Government control. The trouble with this idea is that it invites a return of the abuses and inefficiencies of the Post Office, which was inflexibly bureaucratic and ridden with politics. The virtue of a Government corporation is that it can make appointments on the basis of merit alone, transfer funds as it thinks best without bureaucratic controls, and plan ahead and borrow money for modernization...
...true believers--a modern writer who prefers to remain anonymous--has tried to rectify this sorry situation by finishing the novel Austen was working on when she died in 1817. Although less than a quarter of Sanditon is the real stuff, the characters and plot set forth in it were enough tc give the rest of the story a veritable Austen contour. Charlotte Heywood is a sensible and clearsighted it quiet country girl staying with Mr. and Mrs. Parker at Sanditon, a new seaside resort on the Sussex coast that Mr. Parker is most anxious to promote. There she falls...
...whatever he is eating, King comes on like a force of nature. With a mixture of grandiloquent rhetoric ("I cannot be castigated by accusation and invective") and jive ("I like to make deals that give me my money and my honey at the same time"), King loves to hold forth on anything from capitalism to existentialism. Over his desk he keeps an incongruous pair of portraits: an original of Ali by LeRoy Neiman and a print of Rembrandt's Aristotle contemplating the Bust of Homer...
...movies also recorded violent back-and-forth movements of Kennedy's head and body, leading some people to believe that he was struck by bullets from two directions: from the rear by Oswald and from the front by someone else. But medical witnesses told the Rockefeller panel that the movements were caused by a neuromuscular reaction to the bullet entering from behind and that there was no medical evidence that Kennedy was shot from any other direction. In fact, one witness said, the motions of Kennedy's body could not possibly have been caused by a frontal bullet...