Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, immediately became apparent. When Chicago Banker David Kennedy, who will head the Treasury, was asked about the Government's fixed price for gold ($35 an ounce), he declared: "I want to keep every option open." Kennedy really meant to avoid any policy statement at all. But his remark immediately set off a flurry of speculation that the gold price might be raised (see BUSINESS...
...dollar, it is still under enough suspicion that even an offhand, ill-advised remark by a high official can cause a speculative flurry. Last week David M. Kennedy, Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury, refused to make the ritual pledge that the U.S. will maintain the official price of gold at $35 per ounce. "I want to keep every option open," he said. Next day, the free market price of gold jumped in London to a six-month high of $41.82, and Nixon Press Aide Ron Ziegler tried to quiet the uncertainty by declaring: "We do not anticipate...
...automobile horn. Persistent syncopation and some breathless choreography partly redeem it, but most of the film's sporadic success is due to Director Ken Hughes's fantasy scenes, which make up in imagination what they lack in technical facility. Next to Tiny Tim's hallowed remark, the holiday season's most overworked phrase is "What can we take the children...
...students of the famous sociologist--many of them lounging with him on the grass--say that he writes in Hebrew like Talcott Parsons writes in English. The American students remark that he even writes in English Parsonesquely. He is not universally loved: "When I came to Hebrew University I was looking for an excuse to get out of sociology, and professor Eisenstadt gave it to me," an Israeli philosophy student remarked. But for most of his students and for nearly all the academic world, Eisenstadt's work is exciting, brilliant, and extraordinarily relevant...
Where other poets since the War, notably Lowell and John Berryman, have unceasingly sought and exhausted their techniques before arriving at masterpieces like Life Studies and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, Wilbur began and has continued in delight, while (to alter Frost's remark) wisdom has shown no signs of desertion. Here are two stanzas from "In the Field...