Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jolt. In most essentials, the Nixon Administration and the independent Federal Reserve Board seem to agree. To halt inflation, said Secretary of the Treasury-designate David Kennedy last week, "we must maintain a tight budget and a restrictive monetary policy." The Federal Reserve has gone to considerable lengths lately to proclaim its intent to curb credit gradually...
Chuck Berry was so much the Jimi Hendrix rolled-into-Mick-Jagger of his times in the sense of being a demonaic force, tinged with evil and unabashed about it. When he sings "Sweet Little Sixteen," about the girl with the 'woman blues" who loves to wear "tight dresses and lipstick, high heel shoes" but then must "change and go to school," the thought that he was jailed for years for statutory rape (Rage that he was sent to jail, delight that he knows what he's singing about...
...musical structure that he favors is basically one of tight bursts of packaged melody--made up of a stinging organ sound, precise drumming and his own jabbing giutar, between intervals of his own singing which is acute and stormy. He also seems to have a nice sense of balance and discretion, rarely overstepping into excess. "Tinker Taylor," for example, has a pleasant original riff and this is milked in the song just about as far as it will go and no more--not pounded to death as some American groups are prone to do with their own minor creations. Within...
...Sitting Tight. By the very vagueness of the proposals, which left loopholes for negotiation, the Russian initiative aroused interest-and conflicting evaluations-among officials of the outgoing Johnson Administration. They are drafting a reply to the Soviet note for Lyndon Johnson, asking for clarification and suggesting further exchanges. So far, the U.S. envisages any big-power agreement not as a deal to be "imposed" but merely as a set of proposals that U.N. Special Representative Gunnar Jarring could present to Arabs and Israelis. He resumes his go-between role this month after five weeks at his regular post as Sweden...
...withdrew after the 1956 Suez campaign; the U.N. did not prevent Egypt from blockading the Strait just before the June War. Therefore withdrawal from the occupied territories in exchange for such concessions from the Arabs is unacceptable to the Israelis. What they want is more time. By simply sitting tight since the Six-Day War, the Israelis argue, they have induced the Arabs to hold indirect talks through Jarring. By holding longer, they hope to wrest from the Arab states the bilateral peace treaties they want...