Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY is a black panther of a play, stalking the stage as if it were an urban jungle. Playwright Charles Gordone is too honest to lie about a bright brotherly tomorrow, but he tells the racial truth about today...
...SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER. These two children's films are distinguished by their lack of coyness and a singleminded refusal to condescend to their audience. Mountain concerns a Canadian lad who runs off to the woods, and Ring tells the sprightly tale of a London accountant and his pet otter...
...preparation and peaceful pleasures that he found in the areas where they work. "Fishermen drop their lines in the ponds at Pine Bluff Arsenal. At Tooele, the day I was there, thousands of school kids were paying Armed Forces Day visits. There was only one 'incident': a bright teen-ager managed to start up a tank...
...bright sunny day in Cardiff, Charles presented regimental colors to the new Royal Regiment of Wales, an amalgamation of the old Welch Regiment and the South Wales Borderers, created as part of Britain's efforts to cut defense expenditures. For Charles, newly named as its Colonel in Chief, it was a successful show, marred only slightly by the efforts of the regimental goat to eat his sash. "Let us hope," he said later, "that the mascot is trained to act as an alarm in the event of any surprises sprung on us by certain activists," a reference to Wales' extreme...
...degrees, all the parents were asked to rise. The entire body of graduates rose with them, uninvited, and applauded their mothers and fathers, drowning out the far-off shouts of dissidents. There were no pickets at the reception for new graduates at the Ohio Union afterward. Little girls in bright organdy dresses took extra cookies from plates around the punch bowls, while strong-handed men, some uncomfortable in their stiff suits, chatted pleasantly with the professors who had educated their sons and daughters...