Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regrets. Also released was the text of a brief note in which Kennedy thanked Korth for his services but pointedly omitted the usual "regrets" over his departure. A White House aide explained airily that Korth would "fit better" in private life than in government. In hopes of burying an embarrassing situation, most everyone seemed willing to pass the matter off as a dispute over policy in which Korth seemed to be protesting McNamara decisions adverse to the Navy...
...there is a more serious reservation to Conant's proposals. Both at the beginning and the end of the book he makes pious reference to public opinion and the importance of gathering informed laymen's views on teacher education. The program he designs, however, would take little note of these views; by removing extensive state super-vision of teacher training it seeks not to increase public participation, but to widen professional control to include academic faculties. This aim is unrealistic. The ultimate effect of making institutions as a whole responsible for teacher training is to increase the accountability...
...note of mystery was lent to the events in Kyoto by the conspicuous presence in the crowds of a sinister-looking man who wrote furiously in a notebook as the Ibis passed. He identified himself as "head of Find-A-Bird operations in Japan" and as the bird flew off was heard to mutter, "Just as we anticipated--due West...
Some anonymous contributions have appeared in the collection boxes. One envelope contained a $50 bill and a note saying "For the John Perdew Fund...
...regarde." To her, it meant to look, feel, wonder, accept, live. For all her 81 years she obeyed that injunction with an immense, daylight sense of reality and a pagan delight in the sensuous experiences that delivered the world to her mind and to the blue note paper on which she recorded it. The Blue Lantern, written between 1946 and 1948 and now translated into English for the first time, is Colette's last major work-a moving but unsentimental record of how it was with a poet of the senses whose senses were failing...