Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government his $50 million art collection and added another $16 million to build a museum to house it. Today the National Gallery is one of the world's great collections, and, in large measure, the man who has guided its growth and controlled its quality is Director John Walker, 62, who last week announced his retirement...
...Administration that prides itself on careful deliberation, last week's tax proposals were put together with rather uncomfortable haste. Presenting the Nixon program to the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Treasury Under Secretary Charls E. Walker sounded almost apologetic when Chairman Wilbur Mills complained that the plan touched only a few tax inequities. "We have tried to meet some of these things head-on," Walker conceded. "But after all, we have had less than 100 days...
...nearly all of the 155 taxpayers who paid nothing in 1967 despite incomes that exceeded $200,000. Even so, Mills and other Congressmen criticized the Administration for proposing no curbs on big incomes derived from lightly taxed capital gains or tax-free interest on state and local bonds. Walker defended the omissions. Higher taxes on capital gains might cripple private investment and so require more study, he said; and there are constitutional questions about Washington's right to tax municipal securities...
...want to pretend that he can. Mr. Reynolds, who was probably in a TV show once, plays as if he were trying to become a child star, and Sam Whiskey is distinguished only by the quiet talents of Miss Dickinson (a long way from Hawks) and Clint "Cheyenne" Walker, a good actor...
...dogs. It always made me feel to be in a world other than theirs when I saw them shuffle back and forth staring at the streetlights while the dog on the other end of their leash let go on a fire hydrant. What are the metaphysics of a dog walker's reality? They couldn't be of Nature as we know it to be natural...