Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were a little bit amazed, I guess, to see a different kind of a newspaper. I went along for a few months, for four or five months, depending on the advertising, but the advertisers in the area weren't too responsive. Eventually I moved deeper and deeper into the phase that I wanted to go, that is towards more humor, then every story became a humorous story, everything had a humorous angle to it, regardless of what the story might...
Ever since the first phase of the Paris talks began on May 10, U.S. diplomats in Saigon have kept President Thieu informed about the issues under discussion. Aware of South Viet Nam's sensitivity about Viet Cong representation, the U.S. suggested to the North a proposal Secretary of State Dean Rusk described as a practical "Anglo-Saxon approach." An exercise in diplomatic gymnastics, the American plan allowed each side to constitute its negotiating team as it wished and to say what it liked about the equality of its members. The genius of the plan was that the other side...
...settlement without the participation of the Saigon government. He added, moreover, that "there are other matters of de-escalating the war we could make progress on if they did not arrive." That was true enough. But it was also true that the delay in the start of Phase II of the talks- which could lead to a formal cease-fire -had for the moment robbed the U.S. of its diplomatic momentum...
...Disorganized Rabble." The race, in its climactic phase at least, could hardly fail to engage the politician's imagination. The times seemed made for Nixon, yet despite his urbane demeanor and finely honed organization, there remained until the end the possibility that tension and fatigue might combine to bring out the rabbit-punching infighter that the "new Nixon" had kept so firmly in control. For very different reasons, Humphrey's battle for survival also was a fascinating study. Chronically late, incorrigibly loquacious, hopelessly disorganized, the Vice President had seemed to everyone but himself to be a walking case...
...moved into this new, rawly emotional phase? Poons imperturbably prefers to let his paintings speak for themselves, saying only, "It's curiosity that motivates me." Nonetheless, Night Journey, one of his most radical paintings, says something more. The title is taken from Arthur Koestler's The Act of Creation. To Koestler, the artist exists on a trivial plane of daily existence, but he must descend to a harrowing private Hades if he is to find fresh inspiration. Koestler quotes Sir Thomas Browne that "man is 'that great and true amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live...