Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clergyman who has known the Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson since college days, who has campaigned for him for political office, and who has followed his inspired and inspiring leadership as President with pride and with prayers, let me give one man's testimony that he "was a good man to begin with" and that he is still a good and great man. I truly believe that in time there will be acclaim for Johnson as one of our really great Presidents. He knows well the uses of power, and his courage has made him the man of the hour...
Lyndon Bird. Radio Hanoi beams out greetings from Black Power Extremist Stokely Carmichael, repeating tapes that he recorded in North Viet Nam. "To hell with the white man," Carmichael tells the Negro. "It's his war. Let him fight it. The Viet Nam war is for the birds-Lady Bird, Lyndon Bird and all the other birds." Leaflets turned out by the Viet Cong are crude and peppered with misspellings and misstatements (Newark becomes Neward; South Bend, Southden; and Grand Rapids, Gerand Rapid). Though the leaflets show a growing sophistication, current American idiom often booby-traps...
Later, the police let the crowd huddle in a stairwell near the courtroom door, where plainclothesmen snapped photos of everyone in sight. Police had replaced the hallways' dreary lights with new, high-powered bulbs to accommodate the cameramen. One of the main protesters was a balding but erect Soviet general in his 60s who circulated petitions among the assemblage, brandished his cane at a policeman who took his picture. "I'm not afraid of little boys!" shouted Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, who was fired by ex-Premier Khrushchev for protesting "lack of freedom" in the Soviet Union...
...perfect host, Obolensky knew when to be present, when to be absent. Let the others game the night away; he spent the small hours working out last-minute details of the seating arrangements, always fully aware of every shifting allegiance and liaison. But let something go awry, and Obolensky was on the scene. No sooner had the power failed during one dinner than he ordered candles lit, soothing the party-goers with the assurance that candlelight was "far more romantic." By the end, the guests agreed that in all things great and small the planning had been perfect, the execution...
...good ones to go around. Now that most of them jet off to play musical podiums with the world's far-flung orchestras, they scarcely have time to guide the artistic policy of their own ensembles, plan the programs, select the soloists, learn new works, rehearse and perform-let alone address fund-raising luncheons of the ladies' clubs. The best of today's established conductors are thus tired, aging, or both. The Boston Symphony's Erich Leinsdorf, 55, who has announced that he plans to resign at the end of the 1969 season because...