Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhat surprised to read the statement of Mr. William Steinberg (formerly Buffalo Bill) about quartets in residence in universities [Oct. 7]. It's sometimes difficult for a conductor to accept the idea that outstanding orchestra musicians feel they could be more constructive teaching and performing in the midst of a renowned school instead of being musically dictated to by the gentleman standing on the podium. A vacation it is not, but a relief...
...Asked some time later if he had followed the physician's advice, Ezra said no, explaining: "I like what I drink so much better than what I hear." As for himself, declared L.B.J., "I like what I see and what I hear so much better than what I read...
...President did express gratification over one thing he had read: that the Republicans, in effect, were in favor of adopting his Social Security proposals this year rather than next, as the Administration had recommended. Not to be upstaged, Johnson recalled that the G.O.P. had opposed Social Security in the 1930s, added: "We welcome them to the vineyard. We're glad they have religion." In fact, said L.B.J., he was perfectly agreeable if Congress wanted to stay on to pass his proposals this session-a notion that Senate leaders of both parties quickly squelched...
...Senators, Johnson expressed pride in "the quality" of "my loyal opposition," allowed after all that maybe the press had not done so badly by him either. "I've not taken the prize about the mean things they said about Presidents," he told the Senators. "I've read the things they said about Jefferson and Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy...
...civilization" gave way quickly to the foresighted civil rule of such Governors General as William Howard Taft and Francis B. Harrison. "Colonialists with a conscience," as they have been called, Taft and his successors brought the tools of self-government to the Philippines: literacy (72% of all Filipinos can read and write, the highest percentage in Southeast Asia), medicine (Filipino life expectancy in 1900 was 14 years, today it is 60), civil liberties (the Filipino press is the freest in Asia, if not the world). At the same time, the great experiment in self-liquidating colonialism was planting seeds that...