Word: knit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visited city hall in Chicago for a 20-minute chat with the mayor. Emerging, Humphrey fulsomely praised Daley as a "constructive force in the Democratic Party" and "one of the truly outstanding mayors of the nation." What was the former Vice President up to? Clearly, he was out to knit together as best he could his party in Illinois while protecting his own interests. He wanted neither to outrage Daley nor to frustrate Adlai Stevenson. Daley represents the faction that had assured Humphrey the presidential nomination last year; Stevenson symbolizes the younger, more independent element that the party-and perhaps...
Despite the conference's size, the group was surprisingly close knit and insular. It was somehow satisfying to walk into the cocktail party that initiated the conference and see Harold Cruse, the black writer, deep in conversation with Jan Kott, the Polish professor of Comparative Literature. Still, it was at the same time disconcerting to see how many of the new arrivals greeeted each other as old friends. Either the intellectual world was very small or representatives of only a small part of it had made it to the conference...
...Western world owes an immense debt to its close-knit fraternity of central bankers. Within the space of eleven months, their informal collaboration has overcome the turmoil of British devaluation, an upheaval in France and a stampede for gold that culminated in the worst international money crisis since the 1930s. A serious slip at any crucial point along the line could have wrecked the wobbly system of international finance, bringing wholesale currency devaluations and economic chaos. Last week the bankers tried to stave off another incipient crisis almost before the world realized that there was one brewing...
Liberal McCarthvites have control of the party--but barely. They realize consolidation and a strong issue-base are the only answers to the problem. To meet it, a reformists league--either tightly knit like the CDC or a non-partisan group like ADA--will get together after the election. McCarthy and Kennedy people never merged following the assassination, since the McCarthy slate had been elected in the May primary. Much of the Kennedy organization was out-of-state, leaving the McCarthy machine few with which to form a viable coalition. Re-electing Sen. Wayne Morse occupy most liberals this fall...
...Great Plague, Gitter's creation is compelling and convincingly pragmatic. Jones as Everyman holds the center of attention firmly, but much of the first act could be played with less method intensity, more of the light farce Mayer is wont to introduce on occasion. Last night, Iver's tightly-knit band, his stylized compositions and arrangements, and extraordinary singer George Leh, came as close to stealing a show as anybody comes working with Mayer...