Word: reminders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Women's Wear Baily was barred from the reception merely for revealing the wedding-dress design, TIME'S people must have been maxima non grata after printing that 1956 snapshot. Even we Lyndonphobes thought it ungentlemanly to remind the swan there was a duckling...
...rider to an earlier bill that had already been debated in Commons. The effect was to bar debate there on the substance of Wilson's measure-which of course brought an angry outcry from the opposition Tories. Conservative Leader Ted Heath rose in the House to remind Wilson that, during last year's election campaign, the Prime Minister himself had described a wage freeze as "monstrously unfair" and "repugnant to all parties in this country." When the debate issue was put to a vote, Wilson won-though with a sharply reduced majority. Dozens of Laborites clearly shared Heath...
...missed: Sir Malcolm wisely opts for the graceful Mendelssohnian airs; Soprano Elizabeth Harwood gives a limpid account of "Hear ye. Israel"; John Shirley-Quick delivers "Is not his word like a fire" in an opulent basso style. The only low points, in fact, are the hammer-heavy choruses, which remind the listener that this florid form was not really suited to the urbane Mendelssohn, and that when he essayed heroism he often made only noise...
...right back where they started, but on a higher, more sophisticated plane. Explained one Hamburg University political scientist: "Food is an obsession with Germany. It is the symbol of everything the people lacked in the poverty and destruction of war. The most effective way a German has to remind himself that he is now prosperous is to be able to afford the most exotic foods in the world. It is the perfect, the ultimate status symbol...
Ever since Escobedo, many a confessed and convicted criminal had seen the possibility of retroactivity as a hope of getting his case back into court. And now, with Miranda to remind police that just about any question a suspect answers without a lawyer's advice is improper unless he waives his rights, that hope seemed bright indeed. Writing for a 7 to 2 majority, Warren relocked the prison doors. To reopen past cases, he said, "would seriously disrupt the administration of our criminal laws. It would require the retrial and release of numerous prisoners found guilty by trustworthy evidence...