Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coalition of Kennedy and McCarthy forces took party control in July. They hope to consolidate their victory at a March, 1969 state central committee meeting, following a probable GOP sweep in local contests. Under the new chairmanship of Kennedy supporter Robert Maytag (as in washing machine), the state central committee has already built a New Politics-style coalition with Denver blacks...
...Russian music seems to have found a new mood of lyrical quiet and contentment. His artistic debt to Sergei Prokofiev is as clear as ever-embarrassingly so at times-and some of his melodic writing in the first movement is downright dull. But the elegiac sweep of the middle adagio movement and the jauntiness of the finale compensate admirably for these shortcomings. The concerto is not quite a masterpiece, but Oistrakh and the Moscow Philharmonic under Conductor Kiril Kondrashin perform it as though it were...
...seconds on Drake stations. Commercials are reduced to 13 minutes, 40 seconds an hour-about one-third less than the U.S. average. Newscasts are scheduled at unconventional times, such as 20 minutes after the hour. Thus, when the competition is carrying news, Drake-trained deejays run a "music sweep" (three or four recordings back-to-back) to lure away dial switchers...
...some Southern states, such as Virginia, Texas, Florida and North Carolina, in which Nixon has a fighting chance to best George Wallace. This is what Nixon men call a ''peripheral strategy," more or less conceding the Deep South to Wallace. To capture the Presidency, however, the Republicans must sweep much of the West as well, while carrying some of the vote-heavy states, including Ohio, New Jersey and Michigan. New York will probably be an insurmountable problem for Nixon. Illinois will be nearly as tough. California figures to be a tossup...
Grosvenor's sculpture is memorable for its engineering finesse, for its life and sweep, for the way in which a huge Grosvenor dwindles grandly into the distance, playing joyfully with the sight lines of Renaissance perspective. The Larry Aldrich Museum in Connecticut specially commissioned his 100-ft.-long yellow piece for its greensward, and Manhattan's Whitney proudly hangs the 23-ft.-long Tenerife in its lobby. Thanks to his training as an architect, Grosvenor's work is not only handsome but portable - indeed, some times floatable. A swooping, 40-ft.-long black T, recently seen...