Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist formulation arrived in Paris. That package, which seemed to contain several points of concession, had little effect on the content of Nixon's presentation, but it decided him on form and timing, "He was going to hold the speech in his pocket for a propitious moment," said one assistant. "When the V.C. came along, that was the propitious moment." Originally contemplating a more casual press conference delivery, Nixon instead arranged for prime TV time. There was a sense of old-time Johnsonian motion as supporting actors winged around the globe: General Creighton Abrams from Saigon to Washington, Secretary...
Confrontation's Test. The President penciled changes in the speech almost up to the moment when he walked into the White House theater to deliver it. He prefaced his peace plan with a defense of continued U.S. presence in South Viet Nam and a restatement of the nation's goals there. Referring to his inaugural pledge to move the nation from "an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation," the President maintained that the U.S. must demonstrate, "at the point at which confrontation is being tested," that confrontation itself is profitless. As for what the U.S. seeks...
...might have added that even if he had survived impeachment, his own position as a Justice would have been untenable. As it is, the Justice Department is continuing its investigation of his affairs. (Mrs. Fortas believed that the phone in their Georgetown home was being tapped.) For the moment, at least, Fortas, like everyone else, seemed vastly relieved. The day after he resigned, he consoled himself with his violin and the soothing elegance of Mozart and Haydn...
...SILENT for a time, looking out the window at a pigeon that was perched on the ledge. Then he looked at his right thumb, the callus which had been formed by more than fifty years of clarinet playing. "See that callus?" he said after a moment. "Slow Drag got calluses like that on all his fingers from playin' the bass...
Europeans have been into New Orleans jazz for 15 years, now. Perhaps, one of these days, some young Americans will put aside their Janis Joplin, or their Velvet Underground, or their Dr. John the Night Tripper--just for a moment--and will listen to a Lewis record, or a Bunk record and say, "This is genuine. These men are saying something eternal, something tragic, something joyful, something real...