Word: catalystic
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...MUTINOUS Senate is trying to recast the conduct of U. S. foreign policy. Vietnam has been the catalyst for defining a new relationship between the executive and legislative branches. Growing bolder each year, the Senate has taken tentative steps to curtail effectively the disposal of American troops overseas-first by the passage of the "national commitments" resolution in June and now by Mathias' attempt to repeal the so-called Cold War Resolution...
...disturbed by the lack of ability on the part of the church to criticize itself. I am sure that my wife Ellen [his former secretary] had a lot to do with it. In one way, I can say that I simply fell in love, but she was also the catalyst that made me see my other problems in perspective." Matthews believes that "success in a job is very important to any man, but to a man leaving the priesthood it's crucial." He feels that some men should "never leave the priesthood because they need the structure." As for himself...
...suspense to find out events that occurred before the play's action begins. Nothing new is happening, and in a musical this is unbearable. Not only that, but when we finally do learn the three-year-old scandal of Man Stamon and Mayor Quinn, it is confusingly presented; catalyst characters like Josie Finn are sufficiently undefined to screw...
Fairly good reviews for his "subversive comedy," Sheep on the Runway, may have launched a playwright's career for Columnist Art Buchwald (see THE THEATER). Meanwhile, cocktail conversation in New York and Washington is centered on Sheep's catalyst, Joseph Mayflower, played by Martin Gabel. Could Mayflower, a superhawk newsman who drinks only bottled water and claims Is Peace Inevitable? among his writing credits, possibly be a parody of Pundit Joseph Alsop? Buchwald denies it unconvincingly, but Alsop seems to think so. "If Joe's still angry after the run," suggests the humorist, "we'll meet...
...said that the institution of coed housing will probably act as a catalyst to stir up the present housing situation, where each house becomes a "closed community." "There is an air of change; I think things may really take off now," she said...