Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current case of Judge Clement Haynsworth, however, the White House attitude-a combination of stolidity and nervous optimism-increasingly sounded like whistling in the dark. Though the Senate Judiciary Committee last week cleared Haynsworth's nomination to the Supreme Court by a vote of 10 to 7, opposition to the appointment was gathering force, particularly among Republicans. At week's end the hard votes against Haynsworth among the 43 G.O.P. Senators numbered at least 14, and nine or ten more were undecided. Nixon did not have the assured support of even half of his party's Senators...
...President to lose a war (see story page 17). He railed against those who would "bug out." He talked of the crucial nature of the next "couple of months." That meeting placed Nixon shoulder to shoulder with L.B.J. in an unwinnable fight against those whom Johnson once described as "nervous Nellies." Nixon's presidency may never be the same again...
Oldenburg sees the world with eyes as fresh and intent as a child's, and he notices everything. He has collected, for instance, stubbed-out cigarettes. "Everybody puts out a cigarette in a different way, and these are particularly nervous ones," he explains. "A fag end is a basic geometric form-a cylinder-that is altered by a very natural action when it is put out. This interests...
...goes back to the bar "even with all the warnings that I should stay away/... that I'd have my own crisis." He has it, it's a crash, a nervous wreck, but nothing is explained, perhaps because "Buddha giggles/whenever I sit down/to play the typewriter.../his cackling disturbs/my meditations...
Arlen wrote me that he was not at all certain that his pieces were about TV. Perhaps they were about a great, white, ultratechnological superpower picking an out-of-the-way closet of the world in which to have a nervous breakdown- "like sending one's crazy aunt to Pernambuco... but Jesus, now the nervous breakdown seems to be here." His primary concern throughout the book is to present television as a dynamic power capable of fashioning human dreams and fears. He writes...