Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gift he had was that of lucid speech, clear prose, and serious reflection. In an age that has made "communication" its shibboleth if not its romantic illusion, Robert McCloskey quietly expressed the best of the scholarly tradition, both in his clarity of thought and in his commitment to serious learning...
...begins. The Rhode Island boys said that they would schedule their races at night. This united the harness racers and dog racers lobby in Massachusetts who stood to lose money, so they thought, by having to compete against the thoroughbreds of Rhode Island at night. This combined lobby defeated the proposed daytime fall meeting of Suffolk Downs. Thus, during the fall their will be no daytime racing in this state of any sort--no dogs, no trotters, no horses...
...sort of poetic evocativeness. (This technique strongly affected the plays of our own O'Neill, Odets, and Hellman.) The director and the players--and, indeed, the audience-- must be able to catch unspecified implications, to apprehend not so much what is said as what is consciously or subconsciously thought and not said. In addition, Chekhov has woven a host of verbal and tangible symbols into his texture, which makes the result richer than any mere slice-of-life...
There are nuggets of anecdotage along the way. White places his finger firmly on some Nixon fundamentals that are just now becoming evident in the White House. "I've always thought this country could run itself domestically . . . You need a President for foreign policy," Nixon told White in 1967. He quotes an unnamed friend of L.B.J.'s recalling the President's comments on his own peacemaking efforts: "I got earphones in Moscow and Manila, earphones in Rangoon, and earphones in Hanoi, and all I hear on them is 'F you, Lyndon Johnson.' " The historical value...
White's third account ultimately disappoints. What is bothersome in the book is bothersome in the nation. As White himself explains: "It is difficult to be precise about the nature of the nightmare year out of which came Nixon's election. No phrase, no thought can catch, hold and bind together in one frame all the roaring events, the blood and disorders, the inflation and uprisings...