Word: warming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of Congress tried to sing Auld Lang Syne, and the hand-clapping was warm. This was really goodbye to the great love of Lyndon Johnson's life, the U.S. Congress. His car hurried through the clear, cold night of Washington, back toward the White House. He rode with Lady Bird, and they swooped down Independence Avenue and around the white obelisk of the Washington Monument and then back to the South Portico. L.B.J. was a different and silent man, because this at last was his public finale and his personal adieu...
...Ormandy leans over to whisper: "Bravo." Johansen ripples out silvery pianissimos in the slow movement, builds the finale with structural logic and power. At the finish, the audience-which has been told only thai Peter Serkin is "indisposed" and knows nothing of what has gone on-gives Johansen a warm ovation. Ormandy-who knows all too well what has gone on-gives him a hug and kiss. Backstage, Ormandy describes the feat as "a miracle...
...there's a hole at the top of the smokestack where grimy smudging smoke belches out. When the pots are lit and roaring, they produce an astounding amount of smoke, some noise, and a little heat. The heat is why they're there; the pots are supposed to warm the neighboring orange trees and keep the fruit from turning into sawdust sacks...
...nation needed to be engaged. It needed a personality that it could warm to and trust. Instead, it got a preacher and teacher who measured accomplishment in statistics that were irrelevant to the haves and incomprehensible to the havenots. And as opposition became increasingly strident, Johnson reverted more and more to the defensive, secretive, untrusting and, in return, untrusted...
...studied over holidays and insisted on wearing tie, jacket and Sam Browne belt during the hottest days in India. He has grown more relaxed in middle age, having traded the atheism of his schoolboy idol, Nietzsche, for High Anglicanism. He has also exchanged his old spartan regimen for a warm family life with his wife and two children in a Regency-style house in Belgravia...