Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks Bourguiba had dutifully followed his medical instructions by drinking a pint of apple juice a day and taking brisk walks in the Swiss woods (though he passed up the clinic's vegetable dinners in favor of juicy steaks sent in from a nearby hotel). But his hospital room was piled with newspapers and books, alive with the ring of telephones and crowded with visitors. In the clinic's driveway, diplomatic limousines came and went. On his orders, diplomats scurried on a triangular course running from Zurich to Paris to Tunis and back. Early this week Bourguiba...
...began working with the Negro artist Charles Alston. Like many of his generation, he was able to stick to his painting by getting on the Federal Art Project during the Depression. He chose to work not in oil but in gouache, later switched to egg tempera, "a brisk medium that cannot be manipulated like oil. You have to get it all right down; you cannot linger over it." Every so often, Lawrence becomes intrigued with some major chapter out of history - scenes from World War II, in which he served in the Coast Guard, the struggles of the American Revolutionists...
...full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves to trace a few more lines on the meticulously mapped social topography of postwar Britain. New to this socially useful labor, Novelist Gallie adds a wonderful Welsh fluency, quite as awesome as the more widely notorious Irish gift...
Outside In. Even with a brisk business and social schedule, the President sandwiched in a little outdoor activity in the Kennedy tradition. One morning he put on a plaid sports jacket, some old shoes and an old hat, picked up a snappy walking cane, and hiked through the snow-covered streets of Washington with his Choate roommate, New York Adman K. Le Moyne Billings. Later in the day he stretched his legs again. Hiding behind dark glasses and a grey fedora, he walked almost unrecognized among the skiers and sleigh riders of Battery Kemble Park. This week the White House...
When David Ben-Gurion resigns as Prime Minister of Israel, his opponents are usually in trouble. Last week he quit for the seventh time, dashing off his letter of resignation after a brisk three-mile constitutional at a resort on the Sea of Galilee. He then cut the letter by 80% and bounced into an emergency Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, his hair so wildly askew that reporters agreed: "The old man's in a fighting mood." The letter itself was full of cloudy references to "the rule of law, the separation of powers . . . the call of my conscience...