Word: woodworks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inclined last week toward continued cooperation with the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. "I am confident the answers will be found by the Vietnamese government and our aid will continue to be effective," said Secretary of State Dean Rusk, adding that he saw "no evil people in the woodwork...
...Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and General Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of whom visited Viet Nam only last year. Though officially they are only to report on "the military situation," McNamara and Taylor will be sure to take a look at the woodwork...
...oldest new comedian around is Jackie Kahane, who is 39 and has actually been a figure in the nightclub woodwork for some time but is now crawling toward recognition. He is a Canadian and a throwback to the era of the stand-up comedian, the school that thought a comic was a gagman, not an actor, and any joke that couldn't be told in one breath couldn't be funny. Kahane sprays his BBs in all directions. "In kindergarten, my kid flunked clay ... I love children, I went to school with them . . . Our dog is adopted...
...Woodwork. Artists in particular are the guardians, or victims, of the Rousseau romanticism that Snow deplores. They see themselves as the champions of the individual against the Philistines. The stance, however, is no longer true. There will always be Philistines, but right now they are hiding in the woodwork, behind the De Koonings and the Klees. If there is any limit on the surge of artistic creativity, it is imposed not by the George Babbitts but by the "Gaylord Babbitts," a name coined by Peter Viereck to denote the arbiters of taste who run in packs and judge in cliques...
...that was particularly realistic as opposed to the stylized tradition of the time. In her role as a blind country girl, she had to grope along the wall of a cellar in which some revolutionaries had imprisoned her. Suddenly she drew back her outstretched hand; a rat from the woodwork had nibbled on her fingers. "Mr. Griffith was excited with the possibilities of a horde of rats, and photographed them covering me. But I guess the effect was too strong for a 'twenties' audience..." The sequence was one of the few Griffith had to revise before release...