Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hero Griff (Gryffydd) seems at first blink to be just another Lucky Jim type of intellectual spiv-on-the-make. He even makes faces at himself like his famous prototype and is obsessively concerned with the impression he produces in important people (it is usually unfortunate: he wears his first dinner jacket to a cocktail party). But this novel tells not of successful spivery but of a village innocence doggedly preserved amid fleshpots and sophistries-although the fleshpots are rather lean and the sophistries baffling only to Griff, the simple mathematician. Lydia Kilmartin, Eng. Lit., "smashing figure," is probably...
...flicker of a second, a Royal breaks loose, and in that instant Robertson hits him with a pass. Says Robertson of the art of passing: "Throw it as close to your man's head as you can. It'll get by-he'll have to blink...
...Jack (The Captain's Table) Lee's direction has edge and drive; and as the spymaster, Actor Andrews drifts through the story like a huge and sinister iceberg-a masterly personification of national self-interest. With this image on the screen, not even a sappy ending can blink the awkward and timely issue this picture so entertainingly presents: If nations are not bound by the laws of men, why should men be bound by the laws of nations...
...street, near Filene's, neon Christmas lights blink on and off, radios, record players, jukeboxes sound seasonal music--from "Santa Baby" and "The Yuletide Olde Lang Syne," to "White Christmas" to "Silent Night." Nearby, on the Common, some elm trees pretend they are pine. They have been used to offset a large, carousel-like decoration which projects a variety of colors each night...
...Secretary of State Douglas Dillon had a potent new persuader: the seeds of a "Buy American" policy in the cuts in U.S. spending abroad decreed last week by Dwight Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But it was unlikely that the travelers would be obliged to brandish this weapon. Unable to blink any longer the sobering fall in U.S. gold reserves, U.S. allies around the world had at last begun to move to the aid of the Western giant...