Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard the show's moral: to wit, "without a hurt the heart grows hollow." Now if you read that with a Phyllis McGinley intonation--as is often done--you've got a pretty saccharine play on your hands. The Leverett House Opera Society has chosen a different tack. The prevailing tone of the evening is a cool, balanced wit. Rather like a mellow Oscar Wilde propounding the importance of being burnished. The results are marvelous...
Steel stirred up the trouble by writing an article entitled Nine Men in Black Who Think White, a blunt attack on the U.S. Supreme Court that appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. These days, the court is criticized most often as excessively libertarian; Steel took an opposite tack. He charged the court with maintaining the status quo and striking down only "overtly obnoxious" discrimination...
...were essentially the same in Humphrey's speech, the music was different. Humphrey managed to convey to many, however subliminally, his readiness to take greater risks to settle the war. House Republican leaders argued that Humphrey's position represented no departure. But Richard Nixon took the opposite tack. He implied that the Vice President was endangering the prospects for a settlement in Pans by breaking with the President, whose war policies Nixon generally supports, and by allowing Hanoi to think that it might get a better deal from Humphrey. Averell Harnman, the chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, promptly...
...like the original good-time Charlie. Their patter runs in quirky, who's-on-first circles like slightly modernized Abbott and Costello. Dan: "How does it feel to have a few shows under your belt?" Dick: "Something shows under my belt?" Dan: "Maybe I should try another tack." Dick: "There's a tack under my belt!" Dan: "Hold it!" Dick: "But it may be sharp...
...Chicago disturbances have had on public opinion. His staffers sounded out Republican figures around the country, and were advised not to criticize the police. At the same time, Nixon did not want to be in the position of endorsing repressive police measures. In the end, he took the same tack that he had taken on both Viet Nam and the appointment of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice. The whole matter, he pronounced, was simply too important for partisan politics. Judgment should await the results of an investigation by the President's commission on violence: "I think that political figures...