Word: virtualization
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...admirers might talk of having loved Lyndon Johnson, but that was hardly the universal reaction to his presidency. During his last days before retiring from the White House, he was a virtual prisoner. He could scarcely venture out even to the National City Christian Church without risking an encounter with angry youths chanting, "Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many kids did you kill today?" Yet, as the funeral service ended last week, small groups of young people came forward seeking the autograph of Dean Rusk. The incident suggested that the bitterness of the nation's longest war was just beginning...
Farr cannot get over the ironies of his situation. Had he been cited for criminal contempt, the maximum sentence would have been 65 days in jail and a fine of $6,500. But a jail stay for civil contempt theoretically can be indefinite-"a virtual life sentence," as he put it. Even as he anticipated the Douglas order, Farr knew that he could be jailed once more if his current appeal fails. He can only free himself of the contempt citation if he discloses his source or if Older relents. For the present, both remain adamant...
Kilson criticized Ewart Guinier '33. chairman of the Department for what he called "a virtual dictatorship...
...commitment to withdraw all its troops from South Viet Nam but was instead demanding the right to have civilian advisers on the ground even after the truce. North Vietnamese spokesmen also charged that the International Control Commission envisioned by the U.S.-some 5,000 strong-would be a virtual police force. "This has never been the North Vietnamese nor the Provisional Revolutionary Government's idea of a control commission," said a top-ranking North Vietnamese...
...those days, a solo career for a flutist was a virtual impossibility in the U.S. Most of the leading players were working in orchestras, giving recitals on the side. Shaffer had had enough of the orchestral life. She and Kurtz moved their base of operations to Europe, where despite Aristotle's warning ("The flute is not an instrument which has a good moral effect; it is too exciting"), the flute has remained in high standing. There she established herself among the concert world's handful of top-rank women instrumentalists...