Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parliamentarian's Approach. Lyndon Johnson is a smart, shrewd, complex man; he has the capacity and the desire to be President. But he is a superb strategist, too, and he would never risk his cherished Senate leadership on a quixotic adventure-even with Jack Kennedy as his Sancho Panza. He is a man who takes his time, counts the votes, sticks to the possible, makes no move unless he is reasonably certain of success. "Lyndon is using the parliamentarian's approach," said one anxious friend last week. "He waits around for the precise moment and then moves...
...battering-ram cloture vote to beat Southern filibusters into silence (although the Southern minority of 18 included the chairmen of nine powerful Senate committees). The Senate galleries were virtually empty; not a cheer rang through the chamber. But, in a sense, the lack of dramatics was a tribute to superb legislative technique. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Republican Leader Everett Dirksen had allowed plenty of time for Northern liberals and Southern diehards to talk themselves out of election-year invective, then smoothly pushed through the House-approved (TIME, April 4) version of what was essentially the Administration...
Pantomime is both basic and superb at the Second City: Charlie Chaplin is figuratively assassinated in a bit called "City Blights," and Sweden's Cinema Director Ingmar Bergman is taken apart in a parody called "Seven Sealed Strawberries." Another regular feature, "Great Books," pours cholesterol into the heart of literature. In one session, as an adult evening class discusses Oedipus Rex, a woman declares brightly: "I think he knew it all the time...
...before any guards were posted to protect what was left of the monastery. The monks returned at last, in 1940, found most of its greatest treasures, such as the tomb of Count Folch of Cardona's family with its 16th century bas-relief (opposite), had been mutilated. A superb object of contemplation even now, the relief symbolizes life after death through the story of Jonah and the whale. Jonah is shown spewed up from the whale's belly onto the life-strewn shore...
...meet was billed as a tour de force for the amazing Konrads kids, the finest freestylers in history. John, 17, and Ilsa, 15, each held six world records. Barrel-chested John was superb: he shaved .3 sec. off his 220-yd. record with a time of 2:01.6, later swam the 440 in 4:15.9, to break his record by 3.1 sec. (and better by .7 sec. the 400-meter mark of Japan's Tsuyoshi Yamanaka), ended by chopping 17.7 sec. off his record for 1,650 yds. (and 1,500 meters) with a time...