Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lady Bird has already introduced Pat Nixon to Hopkins' domestic counterpart, Chief Usher J. Bernard West, who presides over some 70 cooks, butlers, maids, elevator operators, electricians and carpenters. Under his overall supervision are five housemen who constantly wax and buff the floors; a full-time window cleaner who has 147 windows and eight skylights to cope with; and three flower arrangers who keep busy adorning the twelve guest rooms. After 27 years of White House ceremonies-including J.F.K.'s funeral and Lynda Bird's wedding-West says with equanimity: "We never have crises...
...helped devise in the Kennedy Administration cannot control systematization. Liberal economics was the policy of "making everybody richer, directed from Washington." It distributed more fairly the output of technology, but could not limit productive efficiency for the sake of other values. "It's like putting a man on a window sill and asking him to fly," says Goodwin. "The old liberalism cannot establish communities; it can only build housing units. Liberals used to solving problems through centralization can't conceive of giving people more power in their lives...
...waddled back toward what appeared to be a vault and went in. About five minutes later the vault disgorged him. As he came back to the window, "Deputy" was clutching two of those damn blue forms...
...married in '43, in '42 I got married, somewheres around there. It didn't last very long, it lasted three or four years, and that went out the window. Then I went along as a happy bachelor for quite some time until another woman talked me into marrying...
HERMAN has another difficulty; his memory is too good. What he remembers working in his earlier hits, he feels can also work in Dear World. In Mame, the title character tells her nephew in a song "to open a new window" every day to get the most out of life; in World, the Madwoman tells the romantic lead the same thing (in the song "Each Tomorrow Morning"). The first act of Hello, Dolly ends with the title character leading a march that bristles with her optimism for the future. The first act of this new show closes with its heroine...