Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CIRCLES. Nothing happens in this 1920 play by Gertrude Stein, but it happens wonderfully well. Bound together by the free-ranging, eclectic music of Al Carmines, guru of Judson Poets Theater, In Circles is a word salad in mid-toss...
...Rowland Evans and Robert Novak came out with a story noting underground complaints about Speaker John McCormack, and there was a sudden outpouring of sympathy for the Speaker, a well-loved figure, and just about any bill he wanted. Though he did not show his face or utter a word, Education Commissioner Harold Howe also proved a force. Under the G.O.P. plan, several of OEO's programs, including the Job Corps, would go to Howe's Office of Education, but Southerners would do almost anything-including voting to preserve OEO-to avoid giving more power...
Before making any major personal decision, Michigan's George Romney usually spends an entire day in seclusion meditating and seeking divine guidance. Last week, after a day at home, Mormon Romney had the word. The nation-if not the Deity-would have been very much surprised if it had been...
...Cover) It was 9:33 p.m. on a cold and foggy Saturday in Britain when the word first came. Much of the country was sprawled in stuffed chairs watching an old Doris Day movie (Midnight Lace) on the BBC. First there was a fragmentary bulletin that broke into the movie, then a delay in the scheduled 10:25 news while scriptwriters scram bled to get together details. In millions of living rooms up and down the length of Britain, people watched transfixed while a gay Latin American dance rhythm blared from the box, which went blank except for a slide...
Purely Domestic. Having sworn so long to defend the pound against even the idea of devaluation, Harold Wilson gave plenty of new ammunition to the Tories when he broke his word. Tory Leader Ted Heath greeted the news by saying, "I utterly condemn the government for devaluing the pound," but Quintin Hogg, the Tories' shadow Home Secretary, made a more telling thrust: "People are angry and humiliated by this decision," he said. "At last they will realize that the Labor government cannot govern with its financial policies...