Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoffmann no longer likes to talk about his proposal. "It's bad for one man to be in the limelight too much around here," he says. "Bad for the committee...
Like so many other Southern Liberals, he entered the limelight in 1948, campaigning for Henry Wallace. "I was a radical grass roots organizer even then," he says. He ran for elector of the Progressive Party in district five and spent 10,000 dollars on the campaign, winning a total of 500 votes. "And those I got by trading on my grandfather's name, also a Smith," he chuckles. "I told Wallace we could have bought more votes with that money...
...Hicks were growing more maddening. The burden of these other problems made it difficult for White to draw up carefully thought out position papers that would dominate the debate. Others in the city soon began to realize that unless a way were found for White to draw the limelight with stimulating and exciting ideas, he would be left without a positive role, and relegated to a fruitless battle against Mrs. Hicks' emotional chirpings...
...When I saw that your article on the Rusk-Smith wedding was under "Races," I was annoyed. But after reading the article, I wish to thank you for an unbiased report. I only hope that the day will soon come when a Negro can come into the limelight without anyone's feeling the need to point out his or her race...
...year after his rise to power, his methods had cost his government its earlier popularity, and the doughty little ex-general withdrew even further into himself. "A soldier learns patience," he once told a visitor. "I am a patient man." Prohibited from succeeding himself, he willingly left the limelight after Costa e Silva's inauguration as President in March. He spent most of his time with his family, was seen now and then at the opera in Rio, and took occasional trips to visit old friends. It was on such a trip last week that a small Piper Aztec...