Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today these four parties are as intact as ever: the Roosevelt-Truman-Stevenson-Kennedy presidential Democrats; the Willkie-Dewey-Eisenhower-Rockefeller presidential Republicans; the John Garner-Howard Smith-Harry Byrd-John McClellan congressional Democrats; and the Allen Treadway*-Robert Taft-Charles Halleck congressional Republicans...
...costing $1 billion more than expected because Congress failed to pass revenue measures to offset it. The revision of depreciation allowances is now reckoned to cost the Treasury another $1 billion in 1962-63. Congress also failed to enact the higher postal rates on which the Administration counted to garner about $500 million in revenue, and its repudiation of the farm program meant bigger Government outlays for supports than anticipated. Result: while the Government will spend $93.7 billion, its receipts are estimated at only $85.9 billion...
Under Commissioner Caplin, a former University of Virginia law professor who taught both Bobby and Ted Kennedy, the Government is toughening up its stand on tax loopholes and tax offenders. Personally, Caplin believes that the Government could garner at least as much money-and make the majority of taxpayers happier-by reducing tax rates to 10% in the lowest bracket and to 65% in the highest bracket while getting rid of most exemptions, and lowering oil-depletion allowances. To make present tax rules more intelligible, the IRS has cut form 1040-the long form used by more than a quarter...
...perceptive level of the audience is that of a roomful of producers' relatives. Audrey Hepburn, the other teacher, gives her standard, frail, indomitable characterization, which is to say that her eyes water constantly (frailty) and her chin is forever cantilevered forward (indomitability). Little is asked of James (Maverick) Garner, and he gives...
...Hour cannot forgo a graveyard scene, and afterward viewers are treated to another study of the Hepburn chin, as she walks down the obligatory poplar-lined pathway toward Understanding Fiancé Garner (who had deserted briefly under fire). There is no way for viewers to ignore the implied happy ending (the Broadway version ended grimly), for a great surge of it's-really-all-right music spills into the theater. It is really not all right; it is not all right...