Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Johnson is 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...
Communist High Points. Only two weeks ago the President was planning to authorize a pullout of at least 35,000 troops to follow the 25,000 now on their way home. When he changed his mind at the last moment, he caught both Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird by surprise. His reasons for deferring the decision: the renewed enemy attacks, including the rocketing of the U.S. hospital at Cam Ranh Bay, and allied intelligence warnings that Communist forces were readying a new "high point" for Sept. 2, the 24th anniversary of Ho Chi Minh's proclamation of Vietnamese...
...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1968, by Theodore H. White. White is just as diligent as he was when recounting the victories of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. But this time his protagonist lacks the flamboyance to fire up White's romantic mind, and as a result a slight pall hangs over much of the book...
...buried his brothers and become a surrogate father to Bobby's children, he is now suffering an ugly species of character assassination that in many ways he brought upon himself. However much he has fallen in public esteem, it is probably in the deeper recesses of his own mind that Kennedy is suffering most and experiencing the harshest judgments. The Grecian aspects of the family's tragedies shade here into the existential. There is nothing heroic about fencing with half-truths, falsehoods, omissions, rumors, insinuations of cowardice...
...many of the complex scores now being written that kind of clarity is its own kind of reward. Composer Elliott Carter admits that such works as his Pulitzer prize-winning Second String Quartet (1959) and the Double Concerto for Piano and Harpsichord (1961) were initially written with stereo in mind. In the dense antiphonal Double Concerto, for example, each solo instrument is set off against the other - one to a stereo channel - and each has its accompanying coterie of winds and strings. The resulting dialogue is almost Joycean in its plural textures and moment-to-moment subtleties. Recording studios also...