Word: overlays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon is moving slowly and cautiously. He is fully aware that his first steps are being closely watched and that his first task is to create what an aide calls "an overlay of credibility and sureness of purpose." The period between Election Day and Inauguration can be an awkward one; yet so far, Nixon seems to be using it with skill...
...depth. The set gets off to a rolling, sinew-stretching start on Live Right Now, a down-home boogaloo. Harris plays with heavy-throated gentleness on the bluesy Ballad (For My Love), and with a dulcet, flowing tone on Winter Meeting. There's just a bit of metallic overlay when he turns on the juice with It's Crazy, but then that's the current sound...
...world [Sept. 29]. Heaven knows that what the world needs now is love. But, Peggy and Guy are more than two people in love. They are, indeed, prophets for our time. They have had the courage to proclaim their love to a world still overburdened with a cultural overlay of prejudice. And may those no longer young learn from the parents of this brave couple. They showed us all that love can indeed be blind-blind to ignorant assumptions and fears. I'm optimistic enough to back up my faith in their future and ours with Teilhard de Chardin...
...much of the prolific literary lifetime of the Russian who wrote those lines, the deceptively romantic tone overlay the steely facts of Soviet life...
...equivalent of the lost weekend-a four-day binge of old dad and Old Grand-Dad, nostalgia and nonsense, high jinks and lowlife. Now, says Yale's Associate Secretary Howard S. Weaver, "the concept of the reunion as a big party is dead. There's an overlay of seriousness on top of the fun and games." Increasingly, U.S. colleges and their grads look upon the reunion as the chance for alumni to catch up on their education. Easing out the cocktail parties are lectures and seminars by faculty experts on everything from atomic physics to zoology...