Word: contrivedness
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The Harvard Advocate begins its first issue with a dandy little story by Keith Lowe. New Day, as it is called, tells of the first day of Guinean independence as recorded by a semi-literate citizen who becomes a temporary constable to prevent riots during the country's first election...
Kenneth Macmillan's choreography is refreshingly artful. He has contrived a marvelously quasi-erotic rock 'n' roll dance in slow motion, and an amusing street scene combining car-dodging and song. Director of photography John Wilcox has handled the camera well at all times, and used his medium creatively. Those...
Dismal Jimmy. Charles played his international affairs, as Pearson sees it, with the skill of a chess master. He captured New Amsterdam, and thereby, as it turned out, consolidated England's hold in the New World. Deftly, he outdistanced The Netherlands as a maritime power. Whenever he needed cash...
Almost every politician in Washington last week qualified, in a strictly myopic sense, as "forward-looking." All eyes were fixed on the coming presidential campaign, to the neglect of a pile of pressing U.S. problems. In Congress, with two-thirds of the session already frittered away, Republicans and Democrats scarcely...
Shells in the Eye. At first, the only persons with reservations about Candlestick were the ballplayers. Candlestick was apparently contrived to make the worst of San Francisco's constant winds. Said the Giants' Willie Mays, after clouting two monumental drives during practice and seeing them land, wind-slowed...