Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transition "America's stirring rite of political renewal." The mood of Inauguration 1969 is neither the bleak desperation of 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt succeeded Herbert Hoover amid the Great Depression, nor the partisan exhilaration of 1965, after Lyndon Johnson had been elected in his own right. The U.S. is in grave crisis, yet the President-elect has revealed little of his design; he has remained immured in his Manhattan headquarters, working long hours but making few public statements. Washington waits this week with quiet anticipation for the installation of Richard Nixon, uncertain about the tone and thrust...
...William Rogers. The delicate business of detecting minuscule wiggles in Hanoi's line, often signaled by a change in the tense of a single verb, will fall to two eminently competent professionals. They are Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philip Habib, who was Lodge's political right hand in Saigon, and Marshall Green, who as U.S. ambassador in Indonesia displayed his capacity for low-key, imaginative diplomacy...
...said, "When I had a freshman Cliffie trying to describe pictures of the reproductory system 'o me," Hal admits that some credit for passing the course must be given to the final paper he wrote on the vocalizations of the Great Apes. Standing in a bathtub (to get the right reverberations) Hal and his father recorded sounds made by the orangutan and the chimpanzee. Hall is particularly proud of his reproduction of the copulation call of the female gibbon--he feels it was his masterpiece...
...interviewer said to him, "My grandson is afflicted too. He's mentally retarded." Students such as David, Charlie, and Hal have proved themselves to the academic community, but the rest of the world needs convincing too. Even Hal's experience with the draft was a step in the right direction. "Not only did it give the nation a chance for a good laugh at itself," Hal pointed out, "but it showed the world that a blind person can have a sense of humor...
...fact, the most important change which the committee recommended--creation of a central administrator charged with community affairs--is one that may appear trivial to most observers. Yet the committee was all too right when it wrote...