Word: obstructione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Martin King hears "the clock of destiny ticking out," recognizes his own historical moment, breathes confidence in his ultimate triumph. Never does he place himself on the defensive, acknowledge that there are those who see him standing in the doorway he himself has opened, and old champion become an obstruction...
Last week Congress set out to make most of the liberal punditry of the last four years obsolete. Since 1960, the legislative branch--more specifically, the House of Representatives--has been seen largely as an outmodeled obstruction to the business of government. But several actions taken within the last ten...
"It is one of the great tasks of political leadership," he said last spring at the University of Texas, "to make our people aware that they share a fundamental unity of interest, purpose and belief. I intend to try and achieve a broad national consensus which can end obstruction and...
According to the conventional wisdom, control of Congress has lain for the past four years in the hands of southern reactionaries, rich with seniority, entrenched in their committees. Naturally, this picture has been overdrawn. It has not applied much to the Senate since 1958, and the manuevers of John Kennedy...
Spectral Tapestries. But Bonnard was not concerned with psychology. "We can abstract beauty out of everything," he said. "A painting is a series of spots that are joined together and ultimately form the object over which the eye wanders without obstruction." Bonnard's spectral tapestries are a surface abstraction...