Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great credibility gaps of the war and Watergate, is one of the most profoundly significant effects of Viet Nam. Says Dr. Ronald Glasser, a Minneapolis physician who, after his Army service, wrote 365 Days, one of the finest evocations of the war: "The present inflation, Watergate, our lack of belief in expertise, our confusion, all of these things came out of that war. When someone tells me a nuclear power plant has six back-up systems, I'm immediately suspicious...
McGuire, through his words and actions, lives dedicated to the belief that "you have to be tough and play to win." He is the advocate of the self-made man, the "orchestra leader" who shaped a basketball power by harmonizing the minds of his players...
Contrary to popular belief, the Hasty Pudding stage will not remain dark now that "Overtures in Asia Minor" has closed; the theater will host the Harvard Shakespeare Theater's Romeo and Juliet this weekend and next. There's not much one can say about the world's most famous tragic love story, except that this interpretation has a great deal of "fast and furious" action, according to one cast member, and that director Valerie Lester is aiming for highly emotional heights. The production will be a fairly straightforward one--in other words, Capulet will be an Italian nobleman...
Comedy is not my forte. I don't know how this movie will come out. And yes, I'm scared. I'm like the Cowardly Lion, and two successes back to back have not strengthened my belief in my ability to deliver." Surely that Cowardly Lion can't be Director Steven Spielberg, whose blockbusters, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, have already grossed $630 million. It is, however, and he has an explanation for his chattering teeth: "All the movies I've made are different. Jaws was not like Close Encounters, and neither...
...give up one or two of their regular programs each year, turning the time over to networks to present serious public affairs programs on their own. They would be saying, as Murrow put it: "This is a tiny tithe, just a little bit of our profits . . . to indicate our belief in the importance of ideas." Murrow saw trouble "unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us." Murrow that night was concerned, gloomy, a little shrill. He said he wasn't proposing...