Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within a few days it became painfully apparent to Arab leaders that they couldn't hide the fact of their military defeat from their people forever. One of the worst things that can happen to a leader in the Arab nations is to lose face with the people. Some excuse had to be found for the defeat of countries many times the size of Israel; the truth would have meant political suicide. And so in an telephone conversation between Nasser and King Hussein which was intercepted by Israeli Intelligence, Nasser suggested that the Arab nations tell their people that they...
...Happen Here. For the last couple of years, city officials had been saying proudly: "That sort of thing can't happen here." It had seemed a reasonable enough prediction...
Anywhere. McKissick's list has proved to be woefully incomplete. So far this summer, some 70 cities-40 in the past week alone-have been hit. In the summer of 1967, "it" can happen anywhere, and sometimes seems to be happening everywhere. Detroit's outbreak was followed by a spate of eruptions in neighboring Michigan cities-Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint, Muskegon, West Michigan City and Pontiac, where a state assemblyman, protecting the local grocery that he had owned for years, shot a 17-year-old Negro looter to death. White and Negro vandals burned and looted in Louisville...
...dispatched, many with bulletproof vests and shotguns. Because of coordinated planning, 500 state patrolmen are on call to move into the city on two hours' notice, and 4,000 National Guardsmen within five hours. According to one police official, Commissioner Frank Rizzo feels that "what happened in Detroit happened because the police didn't move in quickly enough. He's not going to let that happen here...
...pushes his fortissimo does he occasionally skirt unintelligibility. Of all Shakespeare's great tragic heroes, Macbeth most needs an actor as opposed to a reciter. Colicos meets this demand impressively. His movements are as convincing as his voice. And he says an unusual amount with his eyes, which happen to be exceptionally penetrating. At present Colicos falls short of an ideal Macbeth in only one respect: his performance lacks sufficient size. Very probably his portrayal will acquire the desired largeness as he continues to play the part in coming years. But as it is, of the fifteen or so Macbeths...