Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour, covering New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine and extending up to New Brunswick, took shape two weeks ago, when the President agreed to meet Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson on Campobello Island in the Bay of Fundy for a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Park. Johnson saw a chance to pan some votes before meeting Pearson and, though his trip was solemnly billed as nonpolitical, his itinerary carried him through five congressional districts where freshman Democrats are threatened...
...creating a 10,000-man agency under the Department of Commerce. As envisioned by President Johnson, it is to "provide a single national focus for our efforts to describe, understand and predict the state of the oceans, the state of the lower and upper atmosphere, and the size and shape of the earth...
...into the oval office one day recently strutted a dapper dandy in brownish-grey toupee, cake makeup, Kings Man cologne, suede-and-'gator shoes, jeweled cuff links in the shape of a Jewish Torah, and a wristwatch with the letters of his name in place of the numerals. The watch spelled GEORGE JESSEL. The old vaudevillian briskly filled the President in on the war, assured him that he would waste no time in telling the world about the great job the boys were doing out there, and perhaps even winked a few funny lines at L.B.J. It was darn...
...liquid voice took him to all the leading European opera houses, then to Hollywood, the Met and finally Broadway musical comedy, where he won a devoted following in the 1940s (The Merry Widow) despite his unsliceable ham acting and his sliceable Polish accent (he kept his "woice" in shape, he said, with small "inwisible" filters in his nostrils to keep "dost" out of the "lonks"); of a heart attack...
...novelists write mostly in the first person, and that person speaks comic-strip American: jive jabber, Al Capptions, sportsese. What he says is ironic, defensive, cool, often comical. In all of these novels, the tone of the talk matters more than the shape of the plot. The new pops derive from the traditional novel of sensibility, but their sensibility is fresh and American. Their anti-heroes are the self and abstract of the lonely crowd, the Jonah wandering lost in the modern Leviathan...