Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the odds against him are long, Rocky's total effort cannot be ignored. His plan for military disengagement in Viet Nam is the most detailed put forward by any of the candidates. He is injecting excitement into the campaign and showing that a Republican presidential candidate can appeal in the ghettos. He has given his party its only viable alternative to Nixon since George Romney dropped out last February. Still, Nixon may be right when he cracks that the Governor's drive has developed "too much, too late...
...spent much of the fall on the taxi squad learning the plays and techniques he had missed. The two games he got into at the end of last season aside, he now sees himself as a rookie at Andover facing the weekly anxiety of cuts, and looking forward to the start of scrimmages July...
Peter Townshend in performance is a tall sleek figure with jabbing thighs. He whips to his left--slips forward--darts further forward--slams his bent foot down on the stage floor to a chord on the guitar played upward with his hand at the end of a complete circle of his whole arm. He retains complete control of his music though and never seems to miss guitar cues...
...grandfather, T. H. Huxley, a brilliant biologist and a public defender of Darwin when Origin of Species was shocking fundamentalists. Representing a kind of caretaker generation, Aldous' father Leonard devoted most of his life to a two-volume biography reciting the achievements of T.H. and looking forward with confidence to his own chil dren's outdoing him. No one is quite sure which son-Aldous or Julian-he had in mind when he wrote...
...rest of the play. This is not a fault--it is just another style of writing plays, one that is circuitous and whimsical, full of zany cynical asides for their own sake. Anouilh has a European mind and Chapman's attempt to fit it into the straight-forward Anglo-Saxon mold is disastrous...