Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obviously enjoying the perquisites of a White House pensioner, the deeper question of what is really on his mind must go unanswered. The feeling is that he is wrestling with his soul, trying to figure out just how things went sour in his five-year presidency. Where did he lose touch? What went wrong in Viet Nam? Ronnie Dugger, owner of the liberal Texas Observer and an expert Lyndonologist, speculates: "He has given up on current opinion and retreated into history. With his memoirs, he is going to try to make as strong a case as possible for his decisions...
...foreign observer. "The guy who owns a typewriter is the guy who can start a new Southern Sudanese provisional government." There is no doubting the passion of the rebels. "There will be no solution until the Arabs leave the south," said one leader. "We have nothing more to lose, so we will fight on to the end." Said another: "I know the West believes peace will come when there is a good leader in Northern Sudan. But this is not true." Nobody knows, because Khartoum has not had a truly effective leader since independence. Whether Nimeri fits that description remains...
...music more than once and thus have acquired a training in hearing musical structures." That kind of knowing audience has made possible a new mode of composition in which snippets from, say, the Baroque, French Impressionism and Viennese post-Romanticism are pasted into surrealistic aural collages that would lose much of their point for anyone who had not heard LPs of the originals. Perhaps the outstanding example of that style is Berio's four-movement Sinfonia, a great critical success last fall when premiered by the New York Philharmonic (TIME, Oct. 18). This week Sinfonia comes...
Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin recently told Congress that high interest rates are "not a goal" of the Board's policy. He implied that he would be happy to see the economy lose enough steam to let rates fall. Still, there is scant chance that the Fed will ease its squeeze on money any time soon, if only because price increases are proving so difficult to arrest...
...early '20s, though, the city that had worshiped him began to shift its fealty to the forerunner of today's independent, iconoclastic superstar: the Yankees' Babe Ruth. McGraw became increasingly irascible and began to lose the iron grip he had always held on his players. Finally, in 1932, he turned over the Giants' reins to one of his own rebels with whom he had fought so bitterly, First Baseman Billy Terry. He died two years later...