Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuban invasion, whose forces the CIA clearly helped to train, arm, and finance, has made it clear that Allen Dulles' agency has since its creation in 1947 assumed a function quite distinct from that of the ordinary intelligence service. No longer does it simply gather information and make recommendations to the National Security Council. Despite the repeated insistences of Dulles to the contrary, it has begun not only to rival the State and Defense Departments as advisors to the President, but to make policy...
...John Kenneth Galbraith, was reluctant to leave Cambridge for New Delhi, Kennedy ripped off a letter recalling his own family's uprooting after his father took over the London embassy. Informed that Peter was an animal lover, the President pointed out India's "fascinating possibilities (although I gather that cobras have to be handled professionally)," encouraged the lad to think of himself as part of "a junior Peace Corps," added an intimate postscript: "I wish a little that I were going also...
This view, held by many liberal Congressmen, is misguided. Investigations are properly conducted to gather evidence, not to punish. An investigation by Congress or the Attorney General should not be a Great Crusade. It should, to use a liberal cliche, refrain from "exposure for exposure's sake...
Such questions, of course, pale beside blurbissimo writing. This is Michelangelo painting the figures of the Sistine Chapel ceiling: "Each one had to be pushed out of his artistic womb, pushed out by his own inarticulate frenzied force. He must gather within himself his galvanic might; his burgeoning seed must be generated each day anew within his vitals, hurtled into space, projected onto the ceiling, given life everlasting. Though he was creating God the Father, he himself was God the Mother ... on his lonely truckle bed high in the heavens, going through parturition to deliver a race of immortals...
...ordered workmen to build temporary housing to accommodate the 6,000 dignitaries he expects from all over the world. Six weeks hence, when the guests gather in a field outside the town, the torch will be touched, and the old King, in his gilded coffin carved from a sandalwood trunk chosen by the bonzes as predestined to receive the royal body, will go up in scented smoke...