Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matched Thuy, barb for barb. Particularly pointed was his use of a 1956 admission by Hanoi's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap: "We executed too many honest people. Terror became far too widespread. Torture came to be regarded as a normal practice." Harriman also sought to sound an upbeat note by declaring that he had been "struck by some similarities in our respective positions," notably expressions of hope for an independent and peaceful South Viet Nam. But the North Vietnamese swiftly rejected the overture, declaring: "In fact, our positions are very far apart." So they remained after a final...
...that characteristically upbeat note, Hubert Horatio Humphrey volunteered last week to serve his nation as chief pathfinder. Eight years ago, he was the first to announce for the Democratic presidential nomination and the first to be eliminated, long before the convention. Now he is the third, and probably last, entry in a far more bitter contest. This time, no one doubts that he has the strength to battle it out to the end next August...
...that he would do better to imitate a dancer. Anna Sokolow, 55, is a Put-Down whose searing, bleak dances are a condemnation of society's ills. Try as she may, she can't seem to manage a smile. Last year she set out to strike an upbeat note in Time Plus 7 by having teen-agers frugging to jazz; in the end, she had the boys straggle out in Army coats with bloody bandages wrapped around their heads. "I tried to end it happily," she moans, "but how could I with everything that's happening...
Despite Viet Nam and Johnson's gyrating popularity, the Democrats are going into their big year with a good deal of optimism. At a National Committee meeting in Chicago last week, the mood was definitely upbeat. One element in the shift is Johnson's renewed pugnacity, as evidenced in his public statements since November. California National Committeeman Eugene Wyman, who does not always go all the way with L.B.J., observed: "There was a lot of antagonism toward the President [among Democratic officials] a few months ago, but there has been a strong turnaround...
...renascence of that self-assertive tradition." Self-deceptive would be more accurate. Dylan was just another work shirt and guitar buried under hyperbolic interpretation of stock songs ("House of the Rising Sun," "Freight Train Blues"). The words had him then, ballooned his voice with folksy groans and rips, all upbeat enthusiasm and innocence. The Folksinger...