Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scientist Barber claims no credentials in behavioral science. His analysis of Nixon, he admits, is not based on personal acquaintance, but only on careful study of the President's upbringing, rhetorical style, ideological evolution and relations with advisers and opponents. To most laymen, such long-distance analysis will seem outrageous, and behavior experts are bound to take issue with Barber's admittedly unscientific methods and conclusions. But the convention delegates acclaimed his technique. President Watcher James MacGregor Burns thought that Barber's paper provided an "excellent link" between studies of presidential personalities and of the presidency...
American television networks seem to assume that their entire audience is below the age of consent. Thus the new season's most sophisticated entertainment may well be a British import drama rerun by NBC this Thursday, Male of the Species. First aired in the U.S. last January, the work is a dazzling, 90-minute model of urbanity...
Nixon's men themselves seem increasingly unsure about whether their policy is working. Labor Secretary George Shultz said last week that if price rises do not slow markedly in another three or four months, the Administration may have to curb credit and spending still more. The President moved in that direction at week's end by ordering a 75% slash in federal spending on Government office buildings, rivers and harbors and flood-control projects...
...supply, which is defined as cash in circulation plus demand deposits in commercial banks, has grown since the end of 1968 at a 1.5% annual rate, or 1% for the year so far. Under the prevailing theory that money supply controls economic growth, and ultimately price levels, that would seem gradual enough to portend a slowdown soon in the pace of inflation...
...credentials are impressive. Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim, each directing a brace of international superstars in a loose adaptation of a Poe story, seem to promise one of the better anthology films...