Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Buchanan called the presidency "a crown of thorns," and Herbert Hoover pronounced it "a hair shirt." Lyndon Johnson spoke in sepulchral tones of "the awesome burden." There is an article of faith, enshrined in the national mythology, that the leader of the most powerful country on earth must hold the world's most onerous and agonizing job. Knowing how hard the President is working not only reassures Americans, it inspires some in a small way to carry on their own more or less demanding tasks...
...going out of business was chilling indeed. Considerable damage has already been done. Two promising revivals-Puccini's Fanciulla del West and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin-have already been lost even if the Met opens, as it still conceivably could, in a month. Herbert von Karajan's new Siegfried, which must be done in November or not at all, seems likely to be scratched too. Though a handful of the Met's leading stars are still being paid full fees to keep them available, some are obviously itching to drift away and perform elsewhere...
...Herbert Hill, national labor director...
...four-Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics: Herbert M. Gintis, lecturer in Economics; Alan Gilbert, teaching fellow in Government; and Jonathan M. Wiener, teaching fellow in Government-had not been formally charged or brought before the Freund Committee, set up last spring to deal with Faculty discipline...
...political career. Abraham Goldstein, professor of law at Yale, is among those who believe that Dinis should have brought the case before a grand jury, which would have conducted its hearings in secret. "The whole investigative process could be pursued more reasonably with a grand jury." says Goldstein. Professor Herbert Packer of Stanford's law school disapproves altogether of Dinis' handling of the case. "It's just one incompetence after another," he says. "What Dinis has assured himself of is maximum publicity, which is what I suspect he wanted...