Word: jovialness
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...first category belongs India's Shastri, who tries to mediate between antagonists rather than strike at the roots of their antagonism. Malaysia's jovial Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, also finds it hard to be a true national leader because the bulk of his support comes from his anti-Chinese fellow Malays-even though he warns them, "You can't throw all of the Chinese into...
...that it does not make a very good conversationalist -but the scientists are busy fixing that. Until now computer experts could only communicate with their machines in one of 1,700 special languages, such as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), Fortran (Formula Translation), MAD (Michigan Algorithmic Decoder) and JOVIAL (Jules's Own Version of the International Algebraic Language). All of them are bewildering mixtures that only the initiated can decipher. Now some computers have reached the point where they can nearly understand-and reply in-plain English. The new Honeywell 20 understands a language similar enough to English...
...near me tonight. You may get hurt," he said simply. He turned to deal with a telephone message. Someone had called to day they would pick him up. He asked who had called and, apparently discovering that an expected password had not been given, informed the jovial group with us with a smile that the caller was not the right person...
Yale Administrator Henry Chauncey believes that gatherings do not smolder into mobs "if proper police methods are used. If the opposition is jovial, then the students are jovial. But if it's brutal, then they become brutal." The only-and probably unconquerable-difficulty is for the cops to sense the golden mean. Could they have better handled the Tennessee rioters last week? Even as the police tried to get the dying freshman to a hospital, Knoxville police were under continuous ambush, and the snowballing continued for hours after the ambulance had shrieked...
...movie has been brilliantly cast. Bogart surely "born to play" Sam Spade. The detective's bitter lines get sharp emphasis from Bogart's smug grin and sour lisp, making Spade probably the most thoroughly intimidating character Bogie ever portrayed. Sydney Green-street is just right as the jovial, pedantic Fat Man, obsessed with the "black bird." His great line: "Well, by Gad, if you lose a son it's possible to get another, but there's only one Maltese Falcon," is perhaps the best in a movie full of great lines. Peter Lorre is suitably effete and prim...