Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House turnabout resulted from a partisan congressional mood brought on by the approaching elections; the bill picked up some Democratic supporters who were irked by the solid Republican opposition. But no one thought its passage had rid the U.S. of its farm scandal. Said Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken ,as he emerged from the House-Senate conference that agreed to the final version: "Well, I can't solve the farm problem, so I'm going over to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Cuba's easier...
That was a mere four months ago. Today, in a turnabout remarkable even by the volatile standards of U.S. politics, Rocky gets cheers from Republican regulars around the land. Almost everyone agrees that he is the man to beat for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1964. This week the Gallup poll (which takes Richard Nixon at his word that he will not be a candidate) reported that among rank-and-file Republicans Rocky has a handsome lead for 1964, with 32% as opposed to 23% for Barry Goldwater, a surprising 14% for Milton Eisenhower, and a mere...
...race for the governorship of Massachusetts and on the policies of the Roosevelt Administration. Harvard upheld one of its sons but condemned another, backing Gaspar G. Bacon '08 by a 7-1 margin over Mayor Curley (who subsequently won) and completely reversing a former pro-Roosevelt stand. The turnabout on the New Deal, many said, was long overdue; for the College should never have drifted away from its traditionally staunch, Republican stand. Cambridge was, after all, not really the place for Democrats...
...S.A.O. turnabout stems partly from the fact that the terrorists now hate De Gaulle even more than they hate the Moslems. But it is also a tacit admission that Algérie Française is dead, and that the S.A.O. terror campaign, which slew an average of 1,000 Moslems a month, failed of its major purpose-to incite a racial bloodbath in Algeria that would force the French army to defy De Gaulle and come in on the side of the Europeans...
Zeffirelli makes them exuberantly violent. When Romeo and Tybalt square off for battle, they crouch like street fighters, foils in one hand, poniards in the other. None of that crossed-swords jazz. This is a rumble, man. In the turnabout of dramatic history, Romeo and Juliet has become, in a sense, an adaptation of West Side Story. It is probably one of the best productions ever given the play...