Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson has taken to saying privately that progress is like whisky: "It is good, but if you drink too much it comes up on you." He obviously believes that he gave the nation as much as it could hold for now. He is anguished that there has been no breakthrough in the Paris negotiations, but thinks he did all any President could to bring peace while defending U.S. interests...
...Ringo complained that the pictures of him made his nose too short, and it was promptly lengthened. But likeness was never really the point of Submarine. It is style or nothing. If the result seems less a coherent story than a two-hour pot high, Submarine is still a breakthrough combination of the feature film and art's intimacy with the unconscious...
...likely event that there will be no breakthrough in the Paris talks in the next month, the new Administration must then attempt to find a settlement formula. If he cannot achieve the "honorable" terms he talked of during the campaign, Nixon's prospects for a successful Administration are practically nil. Beyond Viet Nam, Nixon is pledged to a "new diplomacy." Its aim is to concentrate heavily on the search for common ground with the Soviets and the rehabilitation of the Atlantic Alliance, to reach understanding
...film and still preserve its ability to produce clear playbacks. While working on a CBS lunar-photography project for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goldmark devised a high-resolution film that can carry millions of bits of electronic information. That film has led to an even more startling breakthrough. Goldmark and his colleagues have managed to treat black-and-white film with electronic color codes so that it will reproduce full-color images. When the coded film passes through a special scanner, the colors are electronically retrieved for viewing on the TV screen. The discovery of this cheap color...
However, these two particular examples of "revolutionary" songs indicate a phenomenon that ought to moderate one's sense of disappointment with The Beatles. This is that the Beatles have always tended to innovate in single releases rather than on their albums--when the breakthrough comes it is in one staggering, concentrated dose. This process is quite different from Bob Dylan's, for example, who evolves musically in well-marked steps from album to album. Dylan's single releases are almost incidental to his overall output...