Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monday's act of international aggression and flagrant violation of the 1960 Cyprus Independence Treaty by a desperate and unpopular dictatorship, it is deplorable that the United States government has done relatively little to uphold its obligation to support democracy throughout the world. Our government has not seen fit either to condemn Greek interference and the new Cypriot government--led by a confessed murderer and terrorist whose loyalty and subservience to Athens is unquestionable--or to support, as Britain has done, Makarios's pleas for world powers to "assist the struggle against the rebellion and preserve the independence and democracy...
...Hostages is hardly a cinemagraphic masterpiece, even in its portrayals of the human condition. Too many times it descends into pseudo-psychology, and too many pieces of the plot don't fit together. But these shortcomings can and should be overlooked, because as a unit the movie is a wonderful journalistic portrait of three people who are caught up in crime, but who are also much more than criminals...
There are not nearly enough political leaders today willing to heed this truism. But everywhere there seem to be people ready and willing to play a role, but somehow without quite knowing where to take hold, where to fit in, in what way to bring their energies to bear...
Richard Burton, 48, is a lonely man. There are lawyers, advisers, gofers, groupies, of course, and until last week, there was Liz. Now Dick must struggle on alone-or almost. Looking grim but fit the day after Liz obtained a Swiss divorce, Burton sailed from Manhattan to Europe last week accompanied by Ellen Rossen, 27, daughter of late Film Director Robert Rossen. Ellen and Burton got to know each other during the making of Daddy's epic Alexander the Great, released in 1956. Other meetings followed. Apparently Teen-Ager Ellen was a welcome backstage visitor when Dick starred...
...grouses good-naturedly, but with an undercurrent of emotion, about long hair, pop-music Masses at church and the pubic hair that has sprouted in Playboy's gatefold since he left. He is tender and tentative as he tries to get to know his kids again, tries to fit himself back into the world of backyard barbecues and small talk about Little Leagues. His wife, meantime, has tried to explain to the boys "that I was his girl friend as well as their mother" so they would not "feel left out at times." Increasingly, blessedly, she finds it difficult...