Word: framing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book analyzing their recommendations. He turned in his summary the day after the new President took office. "Nixon was eager to get the machinery started so he could move ahead a little faster once he assumed the reins of government," Burns explains. His next most urgent task is to frame the first proposals that will be sent from the White House up to Capitol Hill for congressional action. In large measure, Burns could thus set the tone of the Nixon presidency...
Daedalus shares the blue-white frame on Linden Street with the Bureau of Study Counsel, but it has no official ties with the University. It began as the Journal of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and arrived at Harvard through the services of John Adams and the default of history. Adams founded the Academy in 1779, in imitation of the Royal Society in Britain. Later presidents of the Academy, Louis Agassiz in particular, continued the Harvard influence and arranged for Academy headquarters in Brookline. The most recent two presidents, Paul Freund and Talcott Parsons, have also been from Harvard...
...morning, it should have little difficulty in broadly defining its goals. Specific strategies and tactics for achieving them are something else. Washington must decide soon if it is going to enter into serious arms-control talks with the Russians. The new President must make up his mind whether to frame a State of the Union address of his own. He has to decide exactly how, if at all, he should rework the budget inherited from Lyndon Johnson. The continuing Middle East crisis calls for patient, imaginative attention. Not least, in Dr. Moynihan's special preserve, the White House must...
...word "promising" is one of those faint praises damned by artists. Translated, it means "skip this and catch the next one." After all, Producer Charles Hirsch, 26, and Director Brian De Palma, 28, filmed Greetings in two weeks for $40,000. Because their exuberance and talent manifest themselves in frame after frame, their film has to be considered-well, promising...
...Progress. "Shingu's mobiles are never ponderous or solemn," Tange says, "but always as they should be: great fun to watch." Many others obviously agree. For their pavilion at the world's fair, Japan's gas companies have commissioned Shingu to create indoor fountains that will frame a huge new ceramic fresco by Joan...