Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposite). Both are former abstract expressionists. Pearlstein, 43, is a shy, bespectacled native of Pittsburgh who studied at Carnegie Tech, painted signs for the infantry in World War II and moved to New York in 1949. Not until a decade later, while sketching the ruins of Rome on a Fulbright in 1958-59, did he rediscover the joys of literally recording reality. Since 1962, his paintings of models, male and female, standing, sitting or lying in unglamorous poses round about his studio, have won well-nigh unanimous critical acclaim...
...Yale Economist James Tobin, a former presidential adviser, put it, "the butter to be sacrificed because of the war always turns out to be the margarine of the poor." The President appeared to have broken finally with such Democratic stalwarts as Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, New York's Senator Robert Kennedy and Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy. Much of the anger directed at Johnson spilled over onto Vice President Hubert Humphrey as well, largely because of his unwavering support of the Viet Nam war and of the feeling among his erstwhile friends in the Americans...
...alike began wondering whether the presidency had not grown too strong. Next month a group of historians led by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. will meet in Manhattan to consider that very subject. In the Senate, North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin began an inquiry into the division of federal powers, while Fulbright looked into the "overextension of executive powers...
...probably nowhere in the nation will voters have a better opportunity to choose between senatorial candidates so split on the war. Though uneasy about some aspects of it, Duncan generally supports the war. On the other hand, no one else in Congress-not even Arkansas' J. William Fulbright-has been so consistently and vociferously opposed as Wayne Morse, who calls U.S. policy "immoral and illegal." Morse is one of only two Senators-with Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening-who voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, one of only three who voted last year against defense appropriations. Challenging anyone...
...Bill Fulbright," says one Republican, "can call the President a name and they are bitter enemies. Wayne Morse can call the President a worse name and they are still friends. The difference is that Wayne smiles when he says it." Not always, but Morse almost invariably balances his invective a few days later with an effusive endorsement of the President. Despite their differences on Viet Nam, the two men are in near-perfect accord on many domestic issues, particularly labor and education. "The President understands that he can't have Wayne on the war," notes one Senator...