Word: screen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standin. Fortas' friendship with the President was not the only objection raised to his confirmation. For some, it was merely a screen to hide their real concern. Some Republicans, hoping for victory in November, do not want Johnson to name anyone to the court for the remainder of his term, since that might deprive a G.O.P. President of the chance to select his own man. Many Southerners dislike the activist trend of the court altogether and see Fortas as a too liberal successor to Warren. As Mississippi's John Stennis complained, "He has clearly shown his alignment with...
...with a twelve-floor, 450-room French Second Empire structure. With its gilt and marble fixtures, the new Willard was a more refined version of the old. When Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice would light up a cigarette in the main dining room, waiters would hurriedly put a screen around her table...
...while the crowd cheered. Ah, yes. When a girl's been a hit in show biz, it's hard to settle for a ho-hum-drum routine. That's why Katherine Reid, 66, who in the 1920s made quite a name for herself on stage and screen, has started up that long comeback trail. Billing herself the "world's only lady gator wrestler," she sees no ordinary run-of-the-reptile return. She wants to gild her scaly and do guest shots on TV shows "walking on a red carpet after they show my old films...
...plastic rhinos in the jungle waters of Disneyland, a society that rips through the latest issues of Playboy and Esquire to read about the technical aparatus behind the gimmicks in the James Bond movies, a society that fills its newsstands with dozens of pulp magazines about the off-screen identities of its on-screen stars--these are pretty sophisticated movie-watchers...
...September 29th, 1968, the previous show, the third in a series of new, educational specials called "The History of Drama: From Tragedy to Farce," faded and disappeared from the television screen. After several seconds of advertising, the picture dissolved to the three men who were part of America's second great presidential TV debate, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and Howard K. Smith, the moderator. This was true American drama: the two nominees in the presidential contest representing the two major parties debating live before the entire nation the vital foreign and domestic issues affecting the country...