Word: dwelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson's supporters within his party, if his popularity proves more than ephemeral, then the impetus that Bobby describes as "this thing" could well carry him all the way along the paved road. This all adds up to a lot of "ifs," and Bobby is reluctant to dwell on them...
...guests are feathered out as birds, again in a cell where a rotter confronts his festering conscience in a mirror that swivels to catch his every move. The spare, clever background music by Composer Maurice Jarre is a pleasurable bonus in a movie that does not just dwell on the past but feelingly rediscovers...
...absurdists have heeded the admonition of their existential idol Kierkegaard, who wrote: "The comic spirit is not wild or vehement, its laughter is not shrill." Black humor has a long tradition that reached its apex in Jonathan Swift. But the humorists who dwell on death and disaster today lean too often toward the narcissistic, reflecting images of themselves as helpless heroes in a world they can neither take nor leave. Their less lugubrious colleagues, on the other hand, have been all too willing to cede the comic to the journalists and to allow the commercial to override the classic...
Dark Green Chic. The ideal woman, as she emerges from the pages of the fashion magazines, combines fashion with journalistic flair, beauty with chic; the staffers rather desperately try to live up to such perfection, and the magazines like to dwell, a trifle narcissistically, on their own staffs. Mademoiselle recently described the office of Editor in Chief Betsy Blackwell: "Dark green, warmly cluttered with antiques, and softly lighted by a crystal chandelier, the bower exudes the feminine yet decisive personality of its occupant." Some of Glamour's editors model for the magazine as well as edit; the most successful...
Like Noah, Bishop was optimistic that the flood will recede. "I expect a revolt on the part of overburdened libraries, administrations and scholars. Foundations, discouraged by the outcome, will be more chary of demanding publication. Their subsidies may be rather for crop limitation than for production. Literary research will dwell less on the disinterment of dead facts, more on the communication of live ideas." Among the live ideas proposed by Bishop: the literature of travel, exploration, adventure; a study of "TIME style and its effect on undergraduate themes"; an analysis of "the explosion of pornography in the sexy...