Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doomsday Flight, in which it is revealed that a self-pitying psychopath (Edmond O'Brien) has placed a bomb aboard Captain Van Johnson's airliner. The bomb is set to go off when the plane descends to 4,000 feet; two sniveling hours later, fast-thinking Captain Johnson lands at Denver (altitude 5,470 feet...
...straights early, and these may have brought him more bad luck than good; when the law of averages straightened out, he fell easy prey to frustration, confusion and bitterness. He didn't have the equipment, and that only whetted his ambition further. What he did have was a fast spiel, a talent for flattering the real movers and shakers with grandiose ideas, and an astonishing gift for getting people to part with their money. "People do not understand me," he once said. "They reproach me for announcing six films for a year and then making only one in four...
...seems fitting that the newest addition to the fast-growing University of Toronto-home base for Canada's baffling communications theorist Marshall McLuhan*-is probably the most television-conscious college in the world. Fully 45% of the instruction at suburban Toronto's Scarborough College is transmitted throughout its single twisting concrete building (see color pages) by television. The college was literally built around its TV facilities...
...room at the Fogg," remembers Curator Lieberman. "And of course we did it." Sachs liked to teach more by anecdotes than academics. "He talked about all his purchases," remembers Curator Rousseau, "and gave us a sense of the tactics you have to learn. A museum person has to be fast on his feet-a scholar, a collector, a dealer and a showman all mixed with diplomacy. Sachs was all these things...
Still other ex-sisters insist that they left precisely because their orders were not moving fast enough on the road to post-counciliar reform. "There seemed to be such great conservatism and such lack of promise from updating my community," says one former nun, "that I felt there was no point in waiting for the next 50 years." Many spiritual rebels who have left the convent did so in the conviction that they could serve Christ far more effectively in secular life. Unless the orders accelerate the pace of change, believes Sister Jean Reidy of the Sisters of Humility...