Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPITTING IMAGE. Some plays sound distinctly unappetizing in conception but prove surprisingly palatable in realization. For anyone who can abide the idea, this work about two homosexuals who have a baby provides a consistently amusing evening, nursing its basic joke with taste and felicity. Sam Waterston and Walter McGinn turn in accomplished performances as Daddy One and Daddy Two in what is probably the first homosexual play with a happy ending...
...1950s," says Rossiter, whose The American Presidency has become a standard college text. "I thought I knew him in 1962; I thought I knew him during the last campaign. But now I'm not so sure I know him. I don't think anyone has a clear idea of what Nixon's going to do on any issue." The office is malleable, and Nixon has many choices. There is only one certainty. He does not have unlimited time in which to make his decisions and define his-and the country's-aims...
...Senate Armed Services Committee, where he preached to the converted and encountered skeptical questioning only from Missouri's Stuart Symington. When Laird later came to grips with hostile Republicans and Democratic members of Senator William Fulbright's Committee on Foreign Relations, there was scarcely a new idea on either side...
...this Spreen. What a guy! Back of his desk was a huge Valentine from some high school kids inscribed: "Our cops are tops! With luv to the fuzz-Love-Peace-Have a successful love-in." So what's this love bit about? Well,Spreen explained, he had this idea for a 100-day love-in. For 100 days, he wanted all the wise guys to lay off the cops and give him a chance to make some changes. He said that if he had to pick one thing that could really solve the crime problem it would be love...
Franklin denied that only blacks are qualified to teach black studies. "I don't submit to the idea that elucidation in the study of history is endowed by race," he said. "I hope I would be considered able to teach Greek history...