Word: impressionism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Keep Out of the Kitchen. Khrushchev seemed especially angry that President Eisenhower had said that he could stay no more than seven days at the summit and had suggested that if it lasted longer, Vice President Nixon should replace him. Evidently still smarting from his unscheduled debate with Nixon at...
"A highly improbable combination of genes," in Grandson Julian's phrase, is needed to explain Huxley's many-faceted genius. His father, who died mad, was a poor schoolmaster at Great Ealing (a school attended by Thackeray, Cardinal Newman and W. S. Gilbert); Tom was a pupil there...
While Johnson was in Salt Lake City, 1,300 Democrats gathered in the Terrace Ball Room to select Utah's delegation to the Democratic Convention. The sentiment at the meeting was strong for Jack Kennedy and Stuart Symington, with some residual strength going for Adlai Stevenson. It is doubtful...
New Fact of Life. During the Stalin era, that hope seemed completely unrealistic. But during the Khrushchev years, the West has slowly, warily concluded that forces of change are at work in the Red world, evidenced by greater emphasis on consumer-goods production, the partial dismantling of the police-state...
Most observers were under the impression that Johnson had made up his mind a year or more ago. He certainly acted like a candidate (a current Senate joke: "Have you heard that Lyndon is writing his bills on stone tablets?"). He hadn't done much campaigning outside of Texas...