Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lest the public be deceived by the Vice-President's verbal gymnastics, I submit the astute commentary on Humphrey expressed by that most perceptive judge of character and analyst of political strategem, William Shakespeare. His warning against Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester is remarkably cogent.
HOWEVER, when the director, Robert Ellis Miller, turns to the other subplots, he mangles them. The black doctor's relationship with his establishment daughter--one of the book's most perceptive delineations--plays like a Black Power version of Secret Storm. Its climactic carnival scene is as baroque as the...
NOTHING is tougher than being a policeman in a free society. For one thing, the U.S. Constitution guarantees as much individual liberty as public safety will allow. To uphold that elusive ideal, the policeman is supposed to mediate family disputes that would tax a Supreme Court Justice, soothe angry ghetto...
Verrett's gypsy go-go girl was proud, alluring, pantherlike, intelligent and vocally velvet. Right at the start, in the opening Habanera, she rejected the tradition that makes Carmen a menacing femme fatale. "The music of the Habanera is not heavy," she says. "It is elegant, light, playful, seductive...
Everyone admires efficiency, but no one can readily tolerate an efficient man. He is, after all, a rebuke to others. As a result, most efficient men diplomatically try to appear less efficient than they are. Not Robert McNamara. The ablest of the nation's Secretaries of Defense refused to...