Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without getting very specific, Johnson seemed to be promising a revival of the Great Society. That euphoric phrase itself had fallen into disuse in the Administration that popularized it, but at Killeen, Johnson used it twice-with emphasis. "We are rich enough," he declared. "Now the big question is: with your stomachs full, has it pushed your heart out of position where you no longer care...
CHAPPAQUA. Instead of writing his autobiography, Conrad Rooks has made an 82-minute apologia pro sua dolce vita on film, playing himself as the mixed-up son of a rich man who spirals downward into the junkie's world of hallucination and finally emerges to self-realization...
...gave her everything money could buy." That money can't buy love is one of pop music's hoariest cliches, but the Beatles well know that too many parents have reached that desperate extreme. In a day when the generation gap yawns ever wider, the Beatles get rich by singing that communication has supposedly ceased, that parents and children have become strangers to one another...
...worthy cause-the Eskimo Anti-Defamation League. It's not true they're responsible for crime in America"). But he had the old, keen eye for human foibles: a Hindu trying (unsuccessfully) to walk on water, a fluff by Barry Goldwater ("No American wants to be a rich slave; he wants to be a poor slave-I mean poor and free"), Mrs. Robert Kennedy being accidentally belted by a Japanese bandleader, and some of the nation's best football players fumbling foolishly in the rain...
...veteran of the classic 1962 confrontation with President Kennedy over steel prices, turned wry in defense of his industry. Said Blough: "Washington can inflate the money supply with impunity, labor can raise wages far beyond gains in productivity, but hold steel prices down and everyone will be happy and rich-everyone, that is, except the steelmakers, of course...