Word: ob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first major Random House book. "And then," says Cerf brightly, "I took a train to Carmel, Calif., and signed up Jeffers." Shortly after that he went to England and called upon George Bernard Shaw, who had always refused to let his plays be included in anthologies. When Cerf cannily ob served that he was publishing O'Neill, Shaw relented, agreed to let Cerf have Saint Joan, provided that "you pay me twice as much as you pay O'Neill." Cerf gladly obliged...
...that, if passed, would grant home rule to the District of Columbia. In the midst of a conflagrant and confused debate over amendments to the antipoverty bill, Morse charged that "not 20 of you have read" the Senate committee's report on the bill's amendments. Most ob servers thought his figure was high...
...coalition of liberals and conservatives, took office with one big strike against him. In the March elections, the Front won only 162 of Congress' 306 seats, far short of the needed two-thirds majority, and Lleras Restrepo's program of welfare and land reform will face an ob streperous opposition led by ex-Dictator (1953-57) Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. But Lleras Restrepo can always fall back on the 15-month-old state of siege declared by former President Guillermo Leon Valencia, empowering the President to legislate by decree...
...every sense, a revival meeting. Gathered in quaint old Webster Hall, a onetime Greenwich Village ball room, were 1,000 delegates and ob servers attending the first open con gress held by the U.S. Communist Party in seven years. The Reds' aim during the five-day conference was to rebuild their fading cause by publicly exploiting the country's antiwar, civil rights and allied New Left movements...
First there was pop, then the trend setters opted for op, but as the new acquisitions show at Manhattan's Whitney Museum demonstrates, still another category is called for. Old-line Geometric Abstractionist Ad Reinhardt suggests "ob"-from object-and it embraces any object, image of one, or whatsit that might amuse museum directors or titillate collectors. Examples of ob art offered at the Whitney include...