Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brother Bobby, after eight years in the limelight as Attorney General, will be 43-the ideal age for a Kennedy to run for President...
...would seem perfectly suited to the part. Born to wealth and high social position, she has beauty, a swift intelligence and rarefied cultural interests. As Jack Kennedy's wife, she has lived for years in the public's gaze and should be well accustomed to the limelight. But in fact she shrinks from it. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's struggle to maintain her own separate and private identity has been lifelong. It marked her girlhood. It has marked her marriage. It is the key to her past-and to her future...
Hirohito's problem has been to convert adulation into affection. With the older generation, he seems to have succeeded. And with the new generation of princes and princesses coming into the limelight, the postwar antipathy of young Japanese for royalty seems to be changing to tolerance or even lukewarm approval. Emperor No. 124 of the 2,621-year dynasty looked secure in his seat, and there...
...very reason of his climb up the ever steepening curve, the scientist has more than ever before come into the consciousness of world society?and in that limelight the scientist more than ever before is fumbling for and arguing about his proper role in society itself. "Scientists," says Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, "are the most important occupational group of the world today. At this moment, what they do is of passionate concern to the whole of human society...
...Japan's volatile people. It celebrated Kennedy's election with free beer for all males who could prove they were the same age as the Senator. In Tokyo offices, "I'm 43, too" became the boast of junior executives on the rise. Suddenly in the limelight was onetime Imperial Navy Lieut. Commander Kohei Hanami, who broke into print rejoicing that when his destroyer sliced a U.S. PT boat in two in 1943, Lieut, (j.g.) Jack Kennedy had providentially survived...