Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire presentation was appropriate for the men of the Apollo 8 crew. Flying in the wake of Apollo 7, with the irrepressible Walter Schirra and his rollicking "Wally, Walt and Donn Show," they seemed as staid and businesslike as a group of corporate executives. Borman, Lovell and Anders are deadly serious men, cool under pressure and addicted to speech filled with space jargon. Borman, 40, is a lay reader of the Episcopal Church, and during the Apollo 8 mission read a prayer addressed to "the people of St. Christopher's [his church], actually to people everywhere." He also inspired...
Clifford took office in the wake of the Communists' Tet offensive, and his first job included evaluating a request from the generals for 200,000 more troops. For two weeks, he examined all the angles with the same care that had made him one of Washington's most successful lawyers. Finally, he decided that a further buildup was madness. A subsequent trip to Saigon confirmed his suspicion that South Viet Nam's government wanted no part of a peace that would oblige them to risk political concessions and curtail the comforts of U.S. military protection and cash...
...only politician in Brazil able and anxious to make a public speech last week was Arthur da Costa e Silva, President of the republic. In the wake of an army coup the week before that had closed down the Congress, caused widespread arrests and limited civil rights, Costa e Silva chose an obvious audience. In a 15-minute speech, the retired marshal gave the commencement address to the graduating class of the army's high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went...
...next day, Ted took up his self-imposed task of fund raising to pay off the $3,500,000 in debts run up by Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. He was determined not to let the $1,000-a-plate banquet at the Sheraton Plaza degenerate into a wake. After expressing the Kennedys' gratitude to the "finest and dearest friends of our family," he gently needled his mother Rose, introduced her as a "shy and retiring person," as evidenced by her frequent appearances on NBC's Today show. Listening to Ted, a Boston politician said sadly...
...first half of the program thrust us into intermission in the wake of a rather dreadful anticlimax, the Suite in B-flat for thirteen winds by Richard Strauss. This childhood product suffers from the uneasy mixture of a strong Brahmsian influence with overly thick scoring in all but the last movement. The work occasionally possesses a deep sable ambience characteristic of Strauss and is permeated with his incomparable horn writing, but the material is for the most part as boring as a bog. Strauss' penchant for opaque writing, as if he feels guilty when someone isn't playing, only redoubles...