Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President took his keynote theme from Lincoln: "We must ask 'where we are and whither we are tending.'" Indeed, until Johnson actually began to speak, almost no one had any notion whither he would tend. Newsmen got no hint of the President's plans during his long, sequestered sojourn at the L.B.J. ranch. At the White House, security precautions were so rigid that reporters were barricaded out of hearing range of the typing pool so that they could not eavesdrop on secretaries proofreading the speech aloud. Johnson held his options open until the eleventh hour, ordering innumerable...
There are those, inevitably, who think that he is also eminently suited for Lyndon Johnson's job. But Gardner, who describes himself as "a remarkably non-political kind of person," dismisses such a notion as unrealistic...
...generation of Red Chinese that Dean Rusk once expressed the hope might be "recuperated." The Red Guards were not, after all, a new idea in history; Germany had its Hitler Jugend. Millions of Red Guards poured into Peking and other big Chinese cities. How well Mao's notion has worked could be seen last week in a wall poster signed by Liu Shao-chi's own daughter, in which she denounced her father and mother, accusing them, among other things, of not allowing her to tape record their conversations at home...
...girls in my age group who are married, it would have been better if someone had given them a gross of prophylactics, locked them in a motel room for two weeks, and let them get it out of their systems." Boys and girls together reject the post-Renaissance notion that passion, like a chrysanthemum, blooms best when vigorously pinched off. Says Sybil Burton Christopher, who married 25-year-old Bandleader Jordan Christopher after Richard Burton left her for Liz Taylor: "They're breaking away from the unrealities of romantic love to get at the core of love...
...Boiled. If the new bridge lives up to expectations, it will be one of the most significant tonal innovations in string instruments in 300 years. This, however, is not likely to cut much ice with many performers, if only because musicians have a habit of disagreeing on almost every notion concerning their instruments, especially violins. Fiddle players agree on one important fact, however: the finest violins are the Cremona instruments made by Joseph Guarneri del Gesù (1698-1744) and Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). There are only about 150 Guarneri and 550 Strads still in existence, and they sell today...