Word: whim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will since they are all attached to a field background by magnets. Sitting . . . Blocks, on display in Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery last week, is composed of large blocks, painted with splashily ambiguous hieroglyphs, that can be piled one atop the other or lined up to please the whim of the collector. Sylvie, on the other hand, is a giant panel mounted with dozens of magnetized vinyl and metal cutouts, including a head of Sylvie Vartan (the French pop singer), a headless female nude (with movable arms and legs), a Negro head, Clark Kent's shirt being ripped...
...primarily on the theoretical implications of the loyalty oath, it is this statement of crimes which could in practice prove the most damaging section of the act. Hundreds of students who have participated in civil rights activity in the South could be deprived of NDEA money at the whim of the government. The act doesn't specify that officials must deny funds to students who have been convicted of such crimes; but it provides ready justification for any future bureaucrat who is so inclined...
...State of the Union message clearly demonstrated, no one more intuitively senses the mood of Congress than Lyndon Johnson. And, unlike the obedient Democratic 89th, which acquiesced in almost every Administration whim, the 90th Congress will offer far more contention than consensus when it comes to the President's legislative proposals. Johnson recognized as much in conceding before the new Congress: "The genius of the American political system has always been best expressed through creative debate that offers choices and reason able alternatives...
...young boy (Edward Jay) is killed by his fellows rather than be permitted to talk. The three others in the cage, Henri (Daniel Deitch), Lucic (Kathryn Walker), and Canoris (John Appleby), endure torture, deliver a false confession to be set free, and then are killed at the whim of a Vichy officer...
...politicians from the synthetic ones. He spoke of President Kennedy, Ambassador Stevenson, Senator Douglas and even Barry Goldwater as men of sincere political convictions, as genuine politicians. In the second category he put Ronald Reagan and Charles Percy, saying that they were men who tailored their convictions to the whim of the crowd. One should think of Adlai III in light of this distinction; his convictions are genuine and sincere, they are not artificial and fleeting...