Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luchino Visconti's film follows the action of Albert Camus' fine novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness. The action of the book eventually moves into the mind, and Visconti does not find a cinematic way of translating the shift. Marcello Mastroianni plays the hero suffering from alienation and despair...
...down by the newsmen I met--cigars, paunches--a surly bunch. They sneered, guffawed, and went back to crank out their stories with information they didn't take seriously anyway. One of the accredited freelancers I met was from the Dartmouth student paper. Complete with work shift, a bit of a beard and steel-rimmed glasses, he seemed decidedly unmilitary and way out of his element. But he had considerable success in selling enough material to support himself in Saigon. He first broke even with the sale of a story and pictures to Parade Magazine about the mortaring incident...
Despite Viet Nam and Johnson's gyrating popularity, the Democrats are going into their big year with a good deal of optimism. At a National Committee meeting in Chicago last week, the mood was definitely upbeat. One element in the shift is Johnson's renewed pugnacity, as evidenced in his public statements since November. California National Committeeman Eugene Wyman, who does not always go all the way with L.B.J., observed: "There was a lot of antagonism toward the President [among Democratic officials] a few months ago, but there has been a strong turnaround...
...question that nagged Washington was whether the shift to future indicative did, in fact, signal a bona fide peace bid. Outside of North Viet Nam, no one could say for sure. Nonetheless, other simultaneous developments added to the sense, if not the substance, of the hope that there might be some movement in the diplomatic deadlock...
...gold pool and greatly lessen the monetary emphasis on gold, thus ridding the world of much of the alarm, speculation and instability caused by what William McChesney Martin calls "that barbarous metal." Most bankers and economists believe that the major monetary trend of the future will be a shift away from gold and toward a truly international paper currency, supported by contributions of currencies from all major nations. When that happens, money will be regulated by men instead of metal, and the value of each nation's currency will more truly reflect its real economic strength...