Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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M.I.T. is unlikely to change its stand, and the danger is that its protests will count more strongly with the Governor than they merit. Volpe's decision on the Belt will be, as it has always been, extraordinarily difficult. But if he is reelected in November, he should use the power of his office to give Cambridge the route that, in the long run, will destroy the least: Portland-Albany...
Cloak & Cricket. The double agent is Alexander Kamensky, a minor functionary in the household of an Imperial Russian count living in Paris in the 1900s. Kamensky arranges the murder of czarist leaders, while he fingers his revolutionary comrades for the Czar's secret police. Dame Rebecca hints of his duality, but she is in no hurry to expose him. After all, the effect of a double agent depends partly on the ability to wear his ambiance like a cloak...
...Assigned to track down pirates in the Irish Sea, Calvert stumbles on the gang right away. But instead of sensibly going for help, he hangs around long enough to be shot down in a helicopter, and endures so many beatings, near stranglings and near drownings that the reader loses count as well as interest...
Faith McNulty argues that the whooping crane is well worth the concern. Despite the efforts of conservationists, the tallest (over 4 ft.) and by far the most impressive-looking North American bird is fluttering perilously toward extinction. At the last annual count, there were only 51 of the great birds left on earth (seven are in captivity). That they have survived at all, as Author McNulty shows in this splendidly indignant book, is probably due more to their tenacity than to much publicized efforts to save them. Now the Federal...
This is not a silent film, but most crises are followed by melodramatic reaction shots. Count the seconds whenever an interlocutor throws hands in air. One of Hamlet's reactions, after he's thrown down his mother in her chamber, lasts even after a cut. When Hamlet asks Ophelia, "Shall I lie in your lap?" we cut to a bevy of damsels cowering in unison like chorines...