Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong appreciation of innovation in music today is laudable, the results of this emphasis have not all been good. The great gap between the many techniques of composition today inflate the art's factional politics; the neoclassicists rail at the atonalists for their dehumanized experimentation and the latter hiss back at their opponents's "superfiuous," "reactionary" conservatism. If a composer finds no camp congenial, he must have great skill to select the elements from several schools, integrate them into a distinctly personal idiom, and still avoid the short-comings of a patchwork eclecticism...
...rises from the floor to hang alone in mid-air like a puppet on a string. At last he shoots-a precise, gentle release of the ball that is cocked behind his right ear, a final flick of his fingers. The mark of Robertson's shot is the hiss of the net as the ball falls cleanly through...
...liberal Republican, admires the foreign policy views of his close friend (and father-in-law of Brother William Bundy), Democrat Dean Acheson. He edited a volume of Acheson's public papers, once noted that the former Secretary of State was right not to turn his back on Alger Hiss, adding that "Hiss could have been a little more grateful." For that kind of comment, Bundy had a run-in or two with the late Senator Joe McCarthy, who tried to get William Bundy fired from a CIA job. Another old foe is Massachusetts' ex-Governor Foster Furcolo...
...Congress with another freshman, one John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts. Kennedy loped along in anonymity; Congressman Nixon hit the nation's front pages during his very first term. As a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, he was present when ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers testified that Alger Hiss, sometime high State Department official, had been a Communist spy during the 1930s. Hiss's denials convinced the other committee members-but his legalistic evasions caught the alert ear of law-trained Richard Nixon. Nixon doggedly pursued the investigation as virtually a one-man committee. Many an ardent Nixon...
Sprung to fame as the nemesis of Alger Hiss, Nixon ran for the Senate in 1950 against liberal-wing Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (wife of Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas), defeated her in what he called a "rocking, socking campaign." It featured Nixon's documented allegation that her voting record resembled that of New York's Commu nist-lining Congressman Vito Marcantonio-a charge originally hurled at Candidate Douglas not by Nixon but by an opponent in the Democratic primary...