Word: surfeited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lonely Man in the Big Oval Room at Three a.m. which Lyndon Johnson has worked so hard to cultivate. Even if it is true that like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Johnson has tended to play off one advisor against another to make a personal decision, the fact remains that a surfeit of advice has been...
...surfeit of publicity, M.I.T.'s staunch stand may prove superflous. The Brookline-Elm St. location has long been favored by the State Department of Public Works. Moreover, Cambridge seems unable to agree on any single altern. That was more than evident from public hearing last Sunday. Speaker after speaker rose, but almost no one could agree. Some refused to come themselves, declaring they opposed "any and all Belt routes through
...scarcity of sophisticated military governors in Nigeria and the surfeit of lawyers, Cabinet ministers, journalists and savvy tribal chieftains would suggest that a constitutional structure may be the best means for carrying out this political task. So perhaps in time President Azikiwe will be recalled from London, Chief Obafemi Awolowo (the West's most popular Yoruba leader), will be released from Federal prison, and a new Federal Constitution will be drawn up to meet civilian demands...
...impact of the graduate school complex on the College. At first, Riesman says, the presence of graduate schools improved the college atmosphere and gave college a new level of seriousness. But in the middle of a graduate community an elite college such as Harvard "suffers from a surfeit of its virtues." College life becomes "dehydrated"; nothing can be done or prized for its own sake because each step is preparatory to the next...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. with his A Thousand Days made an art form out of instant history. Not too far behind-and duller because more self-consciously definitive-was Ted Sorensen's Kennedy. But for every excellent Kennedy book, there were at least seven sloppily sentimental ones, and the surfeit went so far that Monocle magazine's Victor Navasky struck home with his satirical suggestion for a brand-new title: "Taxi to Greatness, the story of the cab driver who drove young John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier to the movies on their first date...