Word: cool
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Consider, for example, the phrases "doing your thing," "telling it like it is," or even "where it's at." Fresh not long ago, they are now unspeakable for those who would sound current. Things aren't "groovy" or "cool" any more -these two resurrected favorites of the '40s are dead again. The Women's Liberation Movement has consigned "chick" to outer darkness; say "sister" or holler uncle. Even "like"-as in "like you know how it is, man"-is on the blacklist. So is "man," for that matter. And the angry protester who still cries "Right...
...Western White House," but there was a leisurely air to President Nixon's stay in San Clemente last week. The California sun deepened the presidential tan, and his spirits seemed to lift by several degrees. He piloted his fringe-topped golf cart, dubbed Cushman One, through the cool morning mist from his home to the office complex. He left his desk in midafternoon to stroll on his beloved beach, where the waves break far out and roll in parallel white lines to the shore. After the long and tumultuous spring, Richard Nixon was recharging...
...national television audience one night in December 1968, Nixon recalled this statement with regard to Bill Rogers. "I wanted a Secretary of State in these next four years," he said, "who would be the best negotiator in the world, if that was possible. His judgment is good. He is cool. He is a superb negotiator...
Losing His Cool. Both men were plainly war weary as they said their goodbyes last week. "I will never be one of those guys who sit around and talk about the good old days in Saigon," Faas told TIME Correspondent Robert Anson. "There were never any good old days in Saigon. People were always getting killed...
...remember going into Snoul [Cambodia] and seeing the bodies of five civilians in the road. They had been napalmed. There was a mother and her two kids sort of melted together. I've seen a lot of bodies, but this got me. I started to lose my cool." He paused, then added: "The war is going to go on and on-five or ten more years -no matter what anybody writes. I've been like a diver crawling around the floor of the ocean too long. I've got to come to the surface and decompress...