Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only in one brief sketch does the movie suggest the bitter suite of insights that might have been. An ex-infantryman walks the Bastogne town square, explaining to a girl friend the Allied side of the Battle of the Bulge. As he stomps along, he passes a German ex-soldier who volubly outlines the battle to his wife. Booming away, the men pass like bateaux mouches gliding over an ancient shipwreck...
...Harsh. Having reached the first-degree murder verdict the previous week, the panel, under California law, had to decide on Sirhan's punishment. The defense and prosecution made brief pleas, after which the jury spent eleven hours and 45 minutes deciding Sirhan's fate. "I know he premeditated the murder with malice," said Broomis, "but I still thought the death penalty was too harsh." Four formal ballots were taken, but life imprisonment never received more than three votes. Finally, unanimity was achieved. George A. Stitzel, a pressroom foreman for the Los Angeles Times, reported later: "One item that...
...largest daily (circ. 5,350,000), and his flight last week brought the world its first news, complete with pictures, of the U.S. Navy's massive move to protect electronic spy missions off Korea. His crewman's photographs of the U.S. carrier gave Asahi a brief edge in Japan's intense press rivalry, but some ten other press planes, including those of the rival dailies Yomiuri, Mainichi and Sankei, also patrolled the sea last week for pictures and news breaks. In all, Japanese newspapers now own and operate more than 30 planes, from Beechcraft Twin-Bonanzas...
...first time in its three-year his tory, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops allowed reporters to at tend its business sessions. The newsmen were treated to nothing more exciting than, for example, a brief statement of principles by the presiding officer, Cardinal-designate John Dearden of Detroit. Yet even that brief exposure to once se cret proceedings underscored the hierarchy's attempt to establish a more open and democratic style. Some of the bishops visited the Houston Space Center, and on the eve of the conference, a dozen of them made an even more extraordinary gesture toward modernity...
...thinking . . . that there was a moment or two in his epileptic condition almost before the fit itself . . . when suddenly amid the sadness . . . his brain seemed to catch fire at brief moments, and . . . his vital forces were strained to the utmost all at once. His sensation of being alive and his awareness increased tenfold at those moments which flashed by like lightning. His mind and heart wear flooded by a dazzling light. All his agitation, all has doubts and worries, seemed composed in a twinkling, culminating in a great calm full of serene and harmonious joy and hope, full of understanding...