Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was more like it. Wherever they went-in San Antonio, Houston and Fort Worth-the crowds were large, warm, and plainly in love with Jackie. Kennedy had been warned that Texas was enemy territory, indeed, Adlai Stevenson, who had been roughed up by a Texas crowd only last month, advised Kennedy Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. that some Dallasites had voiced concern over the President's safety. Now, with such fears apparently unrealized, President Kennedy was exuberant...
...President Kennedy, popularity was the breath of life-and now he was breathing of it deeply. Texas was supposed to be a hostile political land, but for 23 hours he had been acclaimed there. Conservative Dallas was supposed to be downright dangerous, but he had just come from a warm airport welcome and along much of his motorcade route in the downtown district he had basked in waves of applause from crowds lined ten and twelve deep. What was about to happen must have been the farthest thing from his mind...
...only for a nonentity. It was called "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" (John Adams, the first Vice President), "a fifth wheel to the coach" (Theodore Roosevelt), "as useful as a cow's fifth teat" (Harry Truman), and not worth a "pitcher of warm spit" (John Nance Garner...
Opening to the Seine. For all his eccentric behavior, Sihanouk has also sometimes proved himself a shrewd politician. Since independence from France ten years ago, he has jailed home-grown Communists and wooed his red-hot young leftist critics into the government -while at the same time maintaining warm relations with Russia and Red China. Sihanouk last week performed another typically slippery gyration. Instead of rushing right into Peking's arms, he turned to his old colonial tutor, France, and asked her to help replace U.S. aid. Said the Prince: "For our country, liberated from the U.S. and which...
...ITALIAN DRAWINGS by Winslow Ames. 141 pages. Shorewood. $4.95. Drawing, it has been remarked, is the art of omission, and these two fine volumes display the art-and the inner workings of genius-at its highest. Great Drawings travels from 15th century Painter Jan Van Eyck's warm and perceptive silverpoint, Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, to the sensual shorthand of Matisse's Female Nude from the Back. Italian Drawings, more modest in scope and quality of reproduction, restricts itself to the 15th to 19th centuries. The subjects in both books range from rustic landscapes to architectural fantasies...