Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typewriters keep up their nervous tattoo, the telephones go on ringing, the tides of paper flow in and out. Yet the White House-and indeed all of Washington-seems to function almost in a vacuum when the President is away. Despite the jet planes, private telephone lines and teletype circuits that constantly link the L.B.J. Ranch with the West Wing, Lyndon Johnson's absence from the capital affects the Administration like a power drain. Though his six weeks' stay on the L.B.J. Ranch 1,384 miles away has not been unusually long in comparison with other presidential absences...
From then on, Schlesinger scooped up information like a vacuum cleaner, recording everything on a sheaf of white 8-in. by 4-in. cards that he carried in an inside jacket pocket. On weekends he transferred his notes to white foolscap, eventually filled three black leatherette binders with nearly 400 single-spaced pages. He had intended to put them at Kennedy's disposal. Instead, they became the nucleus for his own book...
...overseas giving as part of their export drive. Germany's most common gift is the calendar, followed by leather goods, such metal goods as pocket knives and scissors and desk equipment. Everybody seems to be fond of giving such gadgets as a blinking alarm clock or a pocket vacuum cleaner...
...excitement of the best moments of a baseball game. This is the kind of effect that this year's Christmas concert seems to have been aiming at. For in each half of the program, a sensationalistic Te Deum was preceded by a dull, plodding piece of music-to-vacuum-clean...
...This kind of unaccompanied chorus demands technical proficiency, in addition to purely musical content. For no matter how much thought backs the melodic line, the audience loses the rhythmic and harmonic context normally provided by other instruments; the solo then sounds like a lot of notes in a vacuum. But Peacock's fast playing, by bringing the notes closer together, adds the harmonic element, almost like broken chords...