Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were still trying to sort out in their own minds what he would be remembered for. There was his youth-which seemed to have kindled in young people all over the world an almost personal sense of loss. There was his style-which now shone with an ever-increasing glow, and made many of his countrymen feel a sudden deprivation of grace and beauty. And there was, in retrospect, a realization that he would have led a gallant and slashing campaign and almost certainly won re-election-and now those Kennedy years were not to be. There...
Room at the Top. As the revolutionary glow that followed Diem's overthrow fades, South Viet Nam's generals seem to be watching each other ever more alertly. They now often wrangle over policy in marathon debates that last until 5 a.m. Bureaucracy also takes its toll of leadership. Brigadier General Le Van Kim, a top strategist, is occupied by administrative chores; last week one of his staff's chief projects was requisitioning three typewriters. Near by, General Dinh flopped back in his chair, groused that the pile of paper on his desk grows higher each...
Thus fact and fantasy interweave in this first feature by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington. Shot along the Southern California beach front on a $75,000 budget, the film emits an uncommon glow of freshness and imagination. Harrington daringly chose to unfold his realistic tale of suspense as if he were Edgar Allan Poe with a megaphone, and most of the time the experiment succeeds. He heightens reality, giving a nightmare quality to commonplace events. Soon even the ripple of bath water begins to sound ominous. In one scene, punctuated by echoes, the pilings under an old pier are transformed into...
...shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people, or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it-and the glow from that fire can truly light the world...
...takers appear to have read religion into their visions or rigged the setting to induce a spiritual experience. One professor at a Protestant divinity school recalls that he was handed a rose to contemplate after taking his dose of LSD. "As I looked at the rose it began to glow," he said, "and suddenly I felt that I understood the rose. A few days later when I reread the Biblical account of Moses and the burning bush it suddenly made sense...