Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked about Oregon, as he knew he would be, Rockefeller measured his words carefully: "Well, I have no present intention of going in. But I have to say, in answer to your question, that I do not make a definitive statement ruling it out." Oregon, in fact, "is a subject I've got to study very carefully...
...pushbutton solutions, no magic gimmicks," he said of Viet Nam. "But I pledge that if the war isn't over [this year], the new leadership will end the war and achieve peace in the Pacific." Exactly how? Nixon did not specify, but what he did say on the subject pointed toward military means rather than concessions to the Communists. Under Lyndon Johnson, he said, "we have wasted our military power by using it gradually instead of effectively." Further: "We can't withdraw. We've got to mobilize our effort. We can pull out, but that would lose...
Sporadic cries of "Lo, the poor Indian!" have been raised ever since the red man lost his wars against the U.S. cavalry. Johnson's document, however, was the first presidential message ever to deal specifically with the subject. The President requested $500 million in federal programs, a boost of 10% over present outlays, to help "provide a standard of living for Indians equal to that of the country as a whole." Items would cover 10,000 Indian children under Head Start, set up a "model community school system," pay for 2,500 new houses a year, allocate $112 million...
...days of Swan Lake and Giselle are gone forever," says Brian Macdonald, the director of the Harkness Ballet. "Today's choreographer can choose any subject he likes." In ballet, the fairy-tale prince of yore is now more likely to be an uptight hippie blowing his mind on pot. Suicide, alienation, bigotry are all possible subjects for dance-as are cerebral abstractions or psychedelic nightmares. As for sex, the prettily stylized love gestures of romantic ballet have given way to body-blending duets that look like lovers' lanes in living color...
...product of the same political system that produced President Johnson. If elected, he will be subject to the same pressures from the military and big business and will have to act in similar ways...