Word: unbeknown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lovely coverage of our Sao Paulo Museum of Art [Jan. 31]. Glad as we are to see international recognition of our efforts toward giving our adopted city a museum worthy of its cultural level, my wife and I and our friends were astonished to read that, unbeknown to us, we have been divorced. Lest I be beseeched by a bevy of suitors who will press for Lina Bo's hand, I would be grateful if TIME were to put it on record that after three decades, my wife and I are still very much married to each other...
...Rainwater and William L. Yancey have written a book about the con-controversy that ensured [The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy, M.I.T. Press (forthcoming)] and much that here follows draws on them. Predictably, albeit unbeknown to the White House, trouble began within the permanent government, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. calls the civil-service bureaucracies. The report and the speech were wholly the product of the Presidential government. The welfare bureaucracy knew nothing of either, but as closer inquiry put the two together it was instantly perceived that the adequacy of the welfare bureaucracy's efforts and even...