Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal funds affect the balance between different disciplines? But, though reservations are strong, it is clear that universities, Harvard included, want more federal money and that they will fight to get it: when President Johnson proposed that the NDEA program of student loans be substantially changed, universities yelled like hell, and, along with other affected interests, actually won a major modification in the President's plan...
...State Department consists in a very large measure of assessing the verbal nuances that make news, could have given them the explanation that night. "I guess they just played it too smooth," he said simply as he put down the receiver. "You kept wondering what the hell they were really after...
...have saved the besieged garrison: American help. That help was denied-and, according to French-born Historian Bernard B. Fall, it was largely because of objections by then Senate Minority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Had the decision gone the other way, Fall argues in a new book on Dienbienphu, Hell in a Very Small Place, the battle would have been won, and the current war might never have taken place...
...Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., such arguments are anything but new. He can imagine similar criticism in Spain in the 1490s: "Why in hell are Ferdinand and Isabella giving all that money to that madman Columbus when they could build a good nunnery or a hostel or something?" The present answer to that question is a matter of hard political reality-which is another way of saying, national will. Space has seized the nation's imagination; other causes so far, have not. Dollars not saved in space would not automatically be allocated to poverty, or cities, or air-pollution control...
...Mikrophonic I, all hell broke loose: sounds resembling runaway trains, breaking glass, blasts of hot steam, foghorns and whooshing jets flashed, crashed and faded like movements in some psychedelic symphony. The effects were achieved by two men who rubbed, scratched and bashed a gong with sticks, stones, brushes and mallets, while two other roving performers picked up the sounds with hand microphones and fed them into filters where further distortions were added...