Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting, Richard Burton's performance is a technician's marvel. His voice has gem-cutting precision and he can outroar Times Square traffic, though he lacks the liquid melody that Gielgud supplies as the voice of Hamlet's father's unseen ghost. His hands punctuate the speeches with percussive rhythm and instinctive grace. He is virile, yet mannerly, as sweet of temper as he is quick to anger, and his wary eyes dart from foe to friend with the swiftness of thought...
...audience. He emphasized his determination "to meet all the commitments" of the Kennedy Administration's ten-year, $20 billion development program for the Alliance. "We will carry forward our Alliance for Progress," the President promised the OAS ambassadors, "in such a way that men in all lands will marvel at the power of freedom to achieve the betterment...
...actors, particularly Mr. Beard, throw themselves into their "zany romantic comedy" with breathless enthusiasm, and I can only marvel that the tiny cast did not sustain several fatalities in its wild romps through Vermont. I also find it a great shame that this exuberant and refreshing amateur spirit--which could do much for the good of the American cinema--has been so subverted in Hallelujah the Hills by the arty pretensions of producer and director...
...President Joseph Callies and his staff were not prepared for the high cost and complexities of computer making. In an overly ambitious decision, Machines Bull jumped from making small units directly to producing the Gamma 60, a costly ($1,000,000 to $3,000,000) marvel that can calculate missile trajectories and turn out a 300,000-man payroll simultaneously. To compete in the intermediate-computer range, Machines Bull distributed RCA models with scant profit. With 80% of its output rented instead of sold, the company gradually discovered that it was not receiving income enough to amortize its nine plants...
...Restoration England or the perfumed corruption of the Gallant Century in France. But Greeks who have grown up with the memory of Aphrodite can only gape at the American goddesses, silken and seminude, in a million advertisements. Indians who have seen the temple sculptures of Konarak can only marvel at some of the illustrated matter sold in American drugstores; and Frenchmen who consider themselves the world's arbiters on the subject, can only smile at the urgency attached to it by Americans. The U.S. seems to be undergoing a revolution of mores and an erosion of morals that...