Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixons will spend Christmas Day in the Executive Mansion and then fly out to San Clemente for a brief holiday. At the family celebration, Nixon will doubtless sit down at the piano to play his Christmas specialty-Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the first Christmas song Daughters Tricia and Julie learned to sing. For the first time, however, the entire family will not be together on Christmas. Julie and David Eisenhower are flying-student fare-to Brussels, where David's father, John, serves as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...kind of Far North VISTA for Catholic and non-Catholic alike in O'Grady's farflung diocese. In Lima, Peru, 100 young priests drafted a proposal of revolutionary social reforms, calling for the church to set the example. Surprisingly, Juan Cardinal Landázuri Ricketts moved out of his mansion and into a modest working class district. In Isolotto, outside Florence, suspended priest Don Enzo Mazzi (TIME, Dec. 27, 1968) is still holding his open-air Masses in the piazza for hundreds of worshipers...
...spearhead, delivering another speech written by Nixon Aide Pat Buchanan. The broadside came on a mission to Alabama as part of Agnew's attempts to protect the Administration's Southern flank. The White House would like to prevent George Wallace from recap turing the Governor's mansion, so Agnew had kind words for the incumbent, Democrat Albert Brewer. In his speech the Vice President continued and broadened the previous week's attack on television news presentations to include print journalism (see THE PRESS). Agnew did not ignore his more familiar adversary, radical youth. In other statements...
...stark hopelessness could not be ignored as you walked past the White House with your tiny candle and yelled out a dead man's name. You couldn't see the mansion because those with the hands on the buttons had switched on lights which blinded your vision as you passed. You couldn't even see the line of candles going up Pennsylvania Avenue. They were too weak...
Instead he joins a group of aristocrats in a country mansion. During their extended party the tangled relationships between them proliferate. The drama becomes a monstrous pattern without order, filled with action which develops only to greater confusion and triviality. The mansion is a collection of rooms we cannot fit together, each with its own specific disorder. And when it's closest to an apparent resolution the film becomes completely chaotic. Octave and Christine. alone in a greenhouse in the park, decide to elope. The light falling on the scene is so broken that their faces and their surroundings...