Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the awards ceremony it is just a matter of a few fast cuts to Sonny and some pals breaking into a local store, to Sonny's term in reform school, to his discharge onto the hard streets of Brooklyn, where he gets into a life of petty crime. There is no surprise here. Awful predictability is the point, and the movie capitalizes on our sorrowful expectations of Sonny's destiny. It also leeches off a shared sense of social outrage...
...region is not yet on a war footing. But unless someone can shuttle up fast ideas for keeping the peace momentum going, it could be before long...
Those Kennedy supporters who believe that Chappaquiddick will fade from memory as the Nixon scandal fades had better do some fast re-evaluating. Here's one voter who will demand all the facts concerning that cover-up the moment Senator Kennedy announces his candidacy for President. Any other candidates, particularly Democrats, had better be damned certain they've looked through all their closets lest there be a skeleton lurking there...
...whole group of aches and pains. There is feverish inflation, constriction of credit and throbbingly high interest rates. The stock market has scarcely been so shaky since 1929. Just about everybody who buys, sells, borrows or invests has that overall feeling of unease. And there is no fast, fast relief in sight...
...whose quiet work, which insists on the importance of ethical rules, "will influence people in the pews"; Rhodesia's black Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, a steady voice for racial equality "whom Rhodesia's black people have learned to trust"; and David Du Plessis, globetrotting apostle of the fast-spreading, transdenominational Pentecostal movement. The editors reserved some of their highest praise for German Theologian Jürgen Moltmann, a Reformed thinker whom they call "the most dominant theological presence of our time." They find that Moltmann's rigorous but essentially optimistic thought (The Theology of Hope; Religion, Revolution...