Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...molded during 26 years on Capitol Hill; unlike most Presidents, he has shown few signs of personal or intellectual change in the White House. He is still the arm-squeezing, wheedling, wheeling-dealing Majority Leader, slinking into the wings when defeat looms and hogging stage center in victory. Stories of his vindictiveness, his pettiness, his tantrums when the press questions his decisions, have done little to improve that image...
...protection for consumers against false labeling and full disclosure on the credit cost of installment sales. Rich, intelligent and Catholic, he is already being talked of in some Canadian political circles as a north-of-the-border John F. Kennedy. His job is ideal for a man in his stage of career, but he may not have time to grow into national importance before the day arrives to choose a new Liberal party leader. Pearson, who turns 70 later this month, has made it plain that he wants only to preside over Canada's centennial year before stepping down...
...critics of the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam, a U.S. appeals court recently ruled. But the critics have certainly not stopped using the draft to dramatize their dissent. Last week Pacifist David J. Miller, 24, not only used the draft, he used a court as well to stage one of the weirdest dissents of the year...
...part dance; the participants were actors, mimes, musicians, lords and ladies of the court, and some times even the reigning monarch himself. Jonson wrote some two dozen such verse spectacles, but his sprightly dialogues and ballads were all too often lost amid the splendor of costumes, sets and elaborate stage effects dreamed up by the Florenz Ziegfeld of the Stuart court, Inigo Jones...
...Jonson was forced to retire from court. Jones continued to rule as the arbiter of taste-until, with the Puritan revolution, he probably landed in prison and eventually an obscure grave. Plentiful evidence of his flamboyant wit and stagecraft can be seen in an exhibit of 119 drawings of stage sets, props and costumes from the Duke of Devon shire's collection at Chatsworth, currently on display at Washington's National Gallery...