Word: keys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon has in fact given nothing away by naming Lodge. The President-elect, who has never concealed his determination to take personal charge of U.S. foreign policy, will serve, in effect, as his own chief bargainer. Nixon is fully cognizant that his No. 1 priority is Viet Nam. Key policies, both at home and abroad, depend upon a speedy settlement of the divisive war that has already claimed 30,644 American lives and drains $30 billion from the U.S. Treasury each year. Like Lyndon Johnson before him, Nixon will draft his instructions to his spokesman in Paris in minute detail...
...key intuition, not spiteful or malicious, but pervasive: in the minds of most Americans the incoming Nixon Administration seems to represent the comeback of the Wasp: the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. True enough, the new President's Cabinet, with three Roman Catholics, is statistically no more Waspish than most in recent decades, even though it stirred comment for including no Negro or Jew. But people sense about Nixon's appointments, and his style, a tone of reassuring Wasp respectability and good manners. The forces that elected Nixon-those who most avidlv supported him-are Wasp to the core...
...noted for their brooding sexuality and four-letter shockers, but Tennessee Williams now seems concerned with more spiritual matters. "I wanted my goodness back," said the 54-year-old playwright; so he converted to Catholicism last week in St. Mary Star of the Sea Church near his home in Key West, Fla. A former Episcopalian, Williams was baptized by the Rev. Joseph LeRoy. Convinced that God has been calling him to Catholicism, Williams now plans a trip to Rome, where he hopes to receive a personal blessing from the Pope...
Expanding into Shoes. For Bowen, the key to streamlining performers like Martin and Sinatra is to "change the sound around them, not change their sound." Equally crucial is Bowen's knack for spotting catchy material. "I'm not setting any trends, and I'm sure not trying to follow any," he says. "I look for songs that are simple enough to be hummable after you hear them one time...
...Key to Character. Legman contends that a man's taste in coarse humor is the key to his character, and also reveals the depth of his anxiety about Western civilization's three great sexual hang-ups: venereal disease, homosexuality and castration...