Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perhaps the President's "Great Society" phrase has as its source [Jan. 15] the medieval preaching of Englishman John Ball on social reform that led to the so-called Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Some historians note that the phrase was indeed in use at the time of that ill-fated event, and L.B.J. might have done well to look up its outcome: John Ball was drawn and quartered, and Wat Tyler's head was impaled upon London Bridge...
...role as presidential successor. At 12:03, Lyndon Johnson took his place before Chief Justice Earl Warren. Across the Potomac, cannon boomed a 21-gun salute. Lady Bird, gazing steadily into Lyndon's eyes, stood between the two men, holding the Johnson family Bible. After repeating the first phrase of his oath, Lyndon realized that he had forgotten to put one hand on the Bible and raise the other; he corrected that, and continued the recitation slowly and so softly that he could scarcely be heard when he concluded, "So help me God." Finishing, he looked at Lady Bird...
...phrase "essential action" advisedly. Mr. Gordon objects to the "fascination" of "blood-red" at the climax of Oedipus Rex. In a fully-staged production, I admit, a device of this sort would be unnecessary--but this is a "concert reading" in which, with as little actual staging as possible, an attempt is made to focus attention on the themes and meanings imbedded in the script itself: exactly what Oedipus' words are at the climactic moment is not so important as the atmosphere in which they occur, which has brought them about. Personally, I think blood-red is appropriate. The "words...
Stimulating Invective. The International Commission of Jurists was founded in 1952 when a group of lawyers met in West Berlin to probe East German violations of "the rule of law." With remarkable consensus, jurists from quite different countries agreed that the phrase means certain bedrock basics of justice, such as freedom of speech, press, worship, assembly and equal protection of the laws. Warning that "the state exists to serve man," the commission has needled authoritarian governments ever since...
...Times, sug gesting his own utter bafflement. "It is difficult to set down with any show of confidence exactly what he is telling us," said Richard Watts in the Daily Post. "Search me," said John Chapman in the Daily News. "In Tallulah Bankhead's famed critical phrase, there may be less to this than meets...