Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future. Far better as prophets have been the science-fiction writers, who usually have limited scholarly credentials but who are abundantly endowed with both nerve and imagination. Almost everybody knows about Jules Verne, who foresaw both submarines and voyages to the moon. Just as prophetic, however, was the late Hugo Gernsback, the first American science-fiction writer (Ralph 124C 41Plus), who predicted, among other things, radar, television, night baseball, rocket planes and communications satellites...
...misgivings unfounded, at least in respect to federal elections. Since Congress can regulate national elections in other ways, the Court's majority reasoned, it also has the authority to set the age of voters. Likewise in state and local elections, four of the five justices held. But Hugo Black demurred on the second issue. "No function is more essential to the separate and independent existence of the states and their governments," Black wrote, "than the power to determine within the limits of the Constitution the qualifications of their own voters." Thus the vote was 5 to 4 against allowing...
...think twice about taking a three-month-old baby into the African bush for an extended stay. But that is precisely what British Zoologist Jane van Lawick-Goodall did in 1967 when she set out on a three-year expedition to Tanzania with her husband and her infant son Hugo (nicknamed "Grub"). Back in London with her family, she reports that she looked to the behavior of chimpanzees for guidance in raising Grub...
...found myself wishing a less modern setting for this morality play than even imaginary World-War II Illyria. Calling Hugo the "kid" seems awkward, but maybe this reductionist slang is finally invigorating in a play so freighted with meaning. What remains dazzling about Sartre is that he can turn a simple story of political intrigue into a lofty, if verbose, piece a these. Lucy Winslow as Hugo's frivolous wife Jessica stands in obvious juxtaposition to Dorothy Gilbert, the doctrinaire, disciplined party comrade Olga. They work very well as decorative comic factors in the play-its Nora Charles...
...most of the actors, all of whom at some point fumbled their lines. The tendency of minor actors to overact was painfully evident in John Archibald's appearance as the martinet Louis, and Peter Brogno's portrayal of Prince Paul. Alongside Paul Sprechler's Hoederer, Warren Knowlton as Hugo generally had his part under control; he seemed physically right for the part, even when his delivery of the rhetoric took on confused and querulous tones. Lucy Winslow, however, was throughout a saving grace, fresh, natural, unaffected...