Word: pendulum
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Focusing his mind power on the looking glass, Sirhan soon convinced himself that he could order an inanimate object to move. He rigged a pendulum from a fisherman's weight, and on command, he said, it began to sway. Yet telekinesis-the ability to cause objects at a distance to move through the exercise of will-was a frightening power, and Sirhan feared that he might lose his mind. Once, instead of his own image in the mirror, Sirhan saw a vision of Robert Kennedy, the man he was soon afterward to kill...
...very perceptive. His thesis that the Gospels provide an anti-Semitic view of the trial of Jesus that incorrectly tends to exonerate Pontius Pilate has, of course, much currency-indeed, any Jewish involvement on Good Friday is being questioned by some writers. But one wonders if the pendulum of interpretation may not be swinging...
...pendulum swings," explains Richard Tuttle. "Pop was with the commercial image. It was a fight against the esoteric thing of abstract expressionism. Now this esoteric thing is coming back." Adds De Maria: "These works are secret-hard to get to. They put commitment back into...
...Same Pendulum. For the past year, three institutions have been principally responsible for formulating Viet Nam policy: the Tuesday Lunch Group that Abrams sat in on last week; the Thursday Group, including C.I.A. Boss Helms, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Wheeler, Nitze, and several others who meet regularly in Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach's office; and the Eleven O'Clock Group, mostly lower-level officials assigned to draft the policymakers' decisions. Among all these officials, few supported the bombing of the North up to the end. The swing man, inclined first one way, then...
...Saigon, Thieu found himself swinging from the same pendulum. When Bunker initially informed him of Johnson's new proposals, he was amenable. Then he reverted to a hard line. To protect himself from the even harder-line advocates within his government−and without-Thieu insisted on public acknowledgment from Hanoi of any concessions it was making in exchange for a bombing pause. He also firmly refused to countenance N.L.F. participation as an independent entity at the Paris talks. But under insistent pressure from his American allies, he began to weaken, seemed ready to accept the "two-sides" formula...