Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Johnsonian law will shape American life for years to come, particularly in the areas of education, social welfare and civil rights. Yet the total impact on the national consciousness was curiously slight, partly because the Great Society was not a total concept but a medley of individual programs and ideas. In the exuberance of the moment, much of the legislation passed under his leadership was too hastily conceived-the product of good will more than of good planning. Perhaps he came to office out of time, operating on Depression-forged beliefs in Government spending that no longer applied...
...Nicholas is a pick-up team in the best sense of the word. The squad consists mostly of ex-Ivy League players who hold regular jobs, but like to keep in shape in their spare time. The mainstay of the team is Peter Bostwick, who is their coach, captain and plays center on the first line...
...arrested recently while teaching a class in bomb making. In fact, more than half those now being arrested for bomb making are under 22. But the I.R.A. may have already lost its war politically, in the sense that it no longer seems capable of influencing the shape of the new constitutional arrangements that Britain will shortly impose on Northern Ireland...
...last quarter of 1972-for a "real" gain of 8½% at an annual rate, and Detroit automakers reported that they sold more new cars during the first ten days of January than during any similar period since 1966. Ahead lay Nixon's best opportunity yet to shape the economy-and through it, many of the nation's social priorities -along the laissez-faire lines that he has long supported. The President had already begun to move away from controls with a fairly relaxed Phase III. Now he could cut back on federal spending that he deems wasteful...
...entirely improbable," he continued, "that President Lowell is despairing of the old system, and that he is trying to impose from above, in the shape of the House Plan, what a good fraternity ought to do of itself. He may have come to the conclusion that the college men of this generation are not intelligent or mature or serious enough to be allowed the traditional Harvard liberty, and is trying what seems to me a desperate measure to introduce from above some measure of homogeneity and coninuity into college life which undoubtedly does not today exist...