Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shriver concedes his mistakes. "Maybe we started too much, too fast, getting too many people excited," he says. "Maybe we should have started one program at a time. But there was great need." Among other blunders for which he was blamed was a $40,000 grant last summer to Playwright LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem to produce, as Shriver later admitted, "vile racist plays in language of the gutter...
...gear had fully retracted. One door had knifed into a tire, and the entire mechanism was locked in an inoperative position. Inability to free it would leave the pilots no choice but to abandon their aircraft over the desert, since the plane is too heavy and comes in too fast (300 m.p.h.) for an emergency belly landing...
...intensive care unit. Going to the home just wastes time." If the variety of specialists makes some people feel that their body is being treated like a diagram in a butcher's shop, U.S. doctors retort that this is only the necessary fragmentation of a science advancing too fast and grown too complex for any one man to know all there is to know. Even so, the average doctor works 60 hours a week, and one out of three works a 70-hour week...
...kids-the girls, especially - engulf him. At Paris' Olympia Music Hall, it took 35 flics to keep back the girls, who retaliated by littering the stage with their panties. "Never in French show business," marvels Maurice Chevalier, who ought to know, "has an artist reached the top so fast." It may be carrying art too far to call Antoine an artist, but there is no doubt that...
Talk Stories is a triumph of skill over form. Few of the stories run four pages, and saddled with the first-person plural narrative gambit, Miss Ross has to tell her story fast and well. Details must be spared in the right places, interview conversations compressed into monologues, and revealing quotes made ironic rather than cute. It is, admittedly, a difficult genre, but Miss Ross has mastered it and added a dimension of her own. She says a great deal by telescoping events and people with minute details. Security Council delegates, for example, are surveyed characteristically by a running description...