Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree with you." Still, he constantly worries about his worthiness to appear before them. Two or three days before each lecture he begins to live in the subject he wants to discuss, in walks around the block or along the river. Nothing is written, or even mentally composed. Sentences (except for the first and the last, which he says he forgets by the time he gets to it anyway) aren't attempted. He prepares by convincing himself of his conviction in the validity of his ideas. His career has taught him that with this method, the words follow most truly...
With the ability, wealth, imagination and governmental resources to meet its pressing problems, said the President at the swearing-in ceremony for CAB Head John Crocker, the U.S. has nothing to fear but fear itself: "I sometimes think we have the power to deal with any foe anywhere except within our own boundaries. A great deal of our weaknesses are caused by pitting our strength against each other and chewing on ourselves...
...have changed hands within ten days in London-as much as 10% of the total gold in the seven-nation Gold Pool, whose bullion reserves are the cushion for the $35 international price of gold. No estimate was possible of all the other trading in gold around the world, except that it was colossal...
Senator MacGruder (John Forsythe) is a man who has everything except the presidency. He is handsome and monied. He has an elegant, tactful wife (Rosemary Murphy). He has a vivacious and loyal secretary-mistress (Kim Hunter). To such a man, some reign must fall, preceded, of course, by the Republican nomination. After some utterly predictable L.B.J. baiting, Nixon knocking, and Reagan ribbing, a flea splashes into the Senator's political ointment...
SIMILARLY, Bro Uttal's impotent, decaying gentleman, Gaev, was hampered by his conventional stage voice, Except for a few aberrant excursions into a Russian accent--notably a weird first-act "Dat's vhy"--he spoke clearly, firmly, strongly and wrongly in a kind of Laurence Harvey accent that disappeared only when his acting instincts carried him away. And Lloyd Schwartz's charming enthusiast Trofimov, who ended the first act in an exquisitely naive love scene with Miss Firth, seemed afterwards unsure how to time and blend his seriousness and humor...