Word: lunes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dinner in their honor. Nixon stage-managed the program for the ballroom of the Century Plaza Hotel, summoning the Marine Drum and Bugle Corps from Washington, decreeing that a song be written and performed for the occasion. The President himself approved the menu right down to the clair de lune dessert, a sphere of ice cream topped with a tiny American flag. Pat Nixon personally okayed the table decorations, which included gold napkins and cloths, flower centerpieces and twinkling five-pronged candelabra. The state dinner for the astronauts was held the farthest ever afield from Washington; it was the costliest...
...Instead of the usual chronological sequence of song groups by Schubert, Schumann, Faure, Wolf, Debussy, and so on, her program was divided between Cantata No. 51 of J.S. Bach ("Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"), setting by various composers of Goethe's "Rastlose Liebe" and Paul Verlaine's "Clair de lune," along with the cycle On This Island by Benjamin Britten to poetry of W. H. Auden...
...TIME notes that "oddity" that "many of those who are attacking Johnson for not having resorted to force at once in the Mideast are those who attack him most bitterly for having used force at all in Viet Nam" [lune 9]. What is so odd about a philosophy that advocates use of U.S. power only when the nation requesting our assistance can clearly demonstrate its own solid commitment to fight for the right to exist and to be free? If the South Vietnamese showed the kind of determination and willingness to defend their country that the Israelis have shown...
...damaging statement about me. You say that Maxey Jarman "kicked" me put of Genesco Inc. There is no truth in this whatsoever. The facts are that much to Mr. Jarman's surprise, I resigned as a director of Genesco and as president of Bonwit Teller in lune 1960. I remained as chairman of Tiffany & Co., and with a group of associates, purchased it from Genesco in October 1961. There is another inaccurate statement that may be just a typographical error. You say, "For at least six years Hoving has tried, and failed, to take over Garfinckel...
Court tennis, however has remained almost unchanged. The only major modification occured during the reign of Henry VIII in England. Formerly, there was a small window, "la lune" or "the moon," high up on the wall, and a ball hit through it gave several extra points...