Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memo that crossed Lyndon Johnson's desk sounded a disturbing note. Written by an aide who had just returned from a tour of the West and Midwest, it reported that the Great Society has yet to kindle any great enthusiasm in the nation as a whole. "People just aren't going to get excited or go crusading for an antipollution program, for beautifying America, even for bettering its educational standards," warned the aide. Most Americans endorse these goals, he concluded. They just don't get stirred up by them...
...Stone and Walter Gropius, Photographer Edward Steichen, Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Actors Alfred Lunt and Fredric March. Also invited but conspicuously absent was Playwright Arthur Miller, who, like Poet Robert Lowell on a similar occasion last June, sent his regrets, and for good measure sent Lyndon Johnson a nasty little note condemning U.S. policy in Viet...
Even opera's passionate defenders must concede that the plots are often preposterous. Coincidence stretches the bounds of credibility (though critics might note that there is a lot of coincidence in life, too, and that its absence in a story can be more unrealistic than its presence). Typical is the moment in Verdi's La Forza del Destino, when Don Alvaro throws his pistol to the floor to show that he is above dueling with his sweetheart's father, the gun goes off and fires a bullet right through Pop's heart. Mistaken identity is rife...
...Aviv office of Israel's Chief Rabbi Isser Unterman, twelve black-coated rabbis solemnly recited their afternoon prayers and then sold several thousand acres of Israeli farm land to a smiling Arab sheik in return for his promissory note for 500,000 Israeli pounds. In exchange for a deposit of $17 down, the rabbis handed over legal ownership of the property to Abdullah Abu Kishek, then toasted the transaction with soda...
...Sour Notes. At last week's annual High Fidelity Music Show at Manhattan's Trade Show Building, there was a raft of compact all-in-one hi-fi units that cost between $200 and $400 and almost never sound a sour note. With two bookshelf-sized stereo speakers and one compact changer-amplifier unit, the new small-fi's can fit almost anywhere, be operated by the wife and the kids, and still give Dad the kind of sound that he yearns...