Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grossest excesses." It was a brilliant, unpartisan, vindictive selection. Charles de Gaulle was there, of course, along with Mao and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The 1967 football season, hanging on "like a summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest dirty book ever written."* Finally, there were all the "Ins" (the bein, the kissin, the wedin...
Massachusetts politicians often talk about something which they call "the system"--the unwritten, rigid rules which govern life up on Beacon Hill. White's ultimatum was in utter defiance of "the system." Indeed, "the system" decreed that the price White would probably have to pay for his interference with the legislative process would be the scuttling of legislation that he might propose as Mayor of Boston. The risk was a great one but White probably realized or at least sensed the sharpness of Davoren's desire to replace him and also sensed Quinn's quietly seething ambition to become Speaker...
Haunches & Knuckles. It sounds like utter gobbledygook until Jordan explains what he means by "playing keys." In simplest terms it means to study an opponent, searching for clues to his intentions, then outmaneuvering him to break up the play. It can be as simple as noting the direction of an enemy lineman's charge-and divining that the play will go the opposite way. It can also be pretty cute. "When an offensive guard comes up to the line," says Tackle Ray Jacobs of the American Football League's Miami Dolphins, "I watch the way he sets himself...
...petition-pushing interns should not be handed only part of the blame: they deserve it all. Actually, the episode eloquently illustrates not so much their "alienation" from the power structure as their utter misunderstanding of how to affect it all. At a time when the vacationing campus activists were but a few paces from a man with whom they could speak and get his attention (namely, the Member), they worked themselves up over an anti-war petition to-- of all people--Lyndon Johnson. The anger expressed by some interns at the President's refusal to meet with them and receive...
...appeared. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak came out with a story noting underground complaints about Speaker John McCormack, and there was a sudden outpouring of sympathy for the Speaker, a well-loved figure, and just about any bill he wanted. Though he did not show his face or utter a word, Education Commissioner Harold Howe also proved a force. Under the G.O.P. plan, several of OEO's programs, including the Job Corps, would go to Howe's Office of Education, but Southerners would do almost anything-including voting to preserve OEO-to avoid giving more power...