Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eisenhower certainly was annoyed with Barry - mostly because of that famed Goldwater crack that "one Eisenhower in a decade is enough." But Goldwater has recently gone to great lengths to try to explain to Ike that the remark was quoted out of context, that he had meant no slur at all. Eisenhower seemed mollified...
...talks about his work he makes it desperately clear that he is working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer than the carpenter: imperfections in his instruments slur the microtonic scheming-and all his years spent with little ore than Chinese proverbs to comfort him are lost and drowned in a chorus of whangs...
...last review he would like to seize a final opportunity not only to deny this most ill-informed of calumnies but to express as vigorously as possible his admiration for all of Harvard's drama. If its best is excellent judged by the highest standards, it is certainly no slur to say that its worst is bad by those same standards. Always it is luminous for its energy and its intelligence. And I have always, last night especially, enjoyed myself...
Mary of your readers thought that the front-page story on the Harvard Graduate School of Education's new tower was a bad joke, or a slur on the school, or both. True, the architect's sketch looked somewhat like the Timbuktu town hall or a crusaders' citadel along the Damacsus road, but the drawing was done by a respected Houston firm, which has planned a red brick veneer to harmonize with Cambridge style and sensibilities...
Swift saw the situation and answered reassuringly in a soft urban fog made more casual by the experienced slur of a 55-year-old. "Is it a lead pencil or a mechanical pencil?" he asked. At least 3,000 tons of worry visibly lifted from the ad man's forehead. "Is it round or hexagonal?" Swift went on gently. "Does it have an eraser?" He got the job. And what did the pencil finally sound like? "Literate," recalls Swift, "-and thin...