Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign. The President has told Humphrey privately that it may be best for him to do nothing, and last week Johnson declared at a press conference that he does not intend to undertake "partisan activities." If that is true, Humphrey may have reason to be grateful in the light of Johnson's plunge to a new low in the Gallup ratings (35% approval, 52% disapproval). Of course, a President can still hit the campaign trail and call it "governmental" rather than partisan activity if he so chooses. Aside from Texas, however, there are few places where the President...
...lost his voice after too much chanting. So he let one of the Fugs read it for him: "All is poetry, the political convention's fake images, mobilizes conspiring with reason to demonstrate America unconscious, hippies chanting Om, the first word of the universe under cloudy new moon light and brilliant...
...Never leave just a small light burning when you are leaving home. This has been used as a disguise so much that even the novice burglar comprehends that it is a falsehood and that no one is within the dwelling. When leaving your home for a shopping trip or an evening out, turn your radio on so that it can be heard by anyone standing near your front or rear door...
...Callahan had suspected would be the case, the spikes proved to be precisely tuned receivers highly sensitive to the wave lengths of visible light. At the base of the spikes, tiny sensors transformed the light into nerve impulses that sent electrical signals to the brain. Under strong light, those impulses automatically blanked out the sense of smell and responses to temperature and humidity on which a moth relies as it flies around in search of a mate or a place to lay eggs...
Today, the conductor is a sort of curator, and he hangs up these equivalents of masterpieces by Rembrandt, only they're by Beethoven. And he tries to light them as well as possible and put them next to the right other picture, and that's called programming. The whole idea of the concert hall grew up with the idea of the symphony. It began in the 18th century and finished with the beginning of the 20th century: from Mozart to Mahler, roughly. The symphonic form is dead, finished. But why despair about it? Just accept it. That tremendous...