Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less Than Omnipotent. Kennedy has come to realize that national and international issues look much different from the President's chair than from a candidate's rostrum. There are fewer certainties, and far more complexities. "We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy, quick or permanent solutions," he said recently in Seattle. "And we must face the fact that the U.S. is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, and that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution for every world problem...
...case at the U.N., he ran true to form. Asked during a London stopover if Mahatma Gandhi would have approved of the Goan invasion, Menon snapped: "Well, he's not here, is he?" A possible clash between Menon and the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson from the rostrum of the General Assembly was avoided when the two men met in private, thus depriving the Assembly of a spectacular verbal display...
Unbridled Power. But preceding the U.S., Nationalist China's Ambassador Tingfu Tsiang went to the rostrum, and Zorin led the other Communist bloc delegates in a walkout from the General Assembly. Tsiang dismissed the Communist regime as "un-Chinese in origin, nature and purpose." Reviewing the grim record of Red tyranny on the mainland. Tsiang urged that tears be shed "over the suffering" of the Chinese people rather than for "their lack of representation...
...Disappointing Van Dyck. At 8 p.m., Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, his English as Tammany and his French as fractured as ever, took his place behind his rostrum, admitting that he had seldom been more nervous. As cameras flashed, the sale began with a portrait by the 16th century Dutch painter Jan Mostaert. A portrait by Van Dyck went for a disappointing $27,000, which was $53,000 below the Parke-Bernet estimate. On the other hand, a splendid Princess Sibylle of Cleves, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, was bought by Thomas Agnew & Sons of London for $105,000, about twice...
Professor Lingane was handed a note explaining the situation as he entered the classroom. He was delayed for some ten minutes, after which he took the rostrum to expose the hoax. While he was making his announcement one of the "proctors" stood at the blackboard behind him marking off the time which remained for completing the exam...