Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Dracula's menace is reduced to the swishing of his cape. Played by Frank Langella. Dracula is all chin and pointed shoes; the man is so thin he looks like a caricature from Punch. His portrayal is no more full-bodied than he is: mere clenched fists, graceful slinking and fierce screams are not of themselves blood-chilling. It is a mystery that Dracula succeeds in hypnotizing people when no one on stage ever seems to look each other in the eye. They all shuffle and prance. Not one makes a move that goes right for the jugular...
...regardless of what the Justice Department finally decides to do on the Helms-ITT investigation, the mere fact of the probe has adversely affected the involved principals. Helms resigned as ambassador to Iran last November upon being formally notified that he had become a major target in the investigation. And ITT headquarters in New York announced in May that Geneen would officer at the end of this year, thus ending Geneen's 18-year autocratic rule of the corporation, whose phenomenal expansion during the 1960s he personally planned and closely supervised...
...Senate Committee on Human Resources will begin considering a piece of legislation today that faculty and administrators at universities across the country are studying with more than mere academic interest. The bill would raise from 65 to 70 years the age at which employers may force their workers, including tenured college faculty, to retire...
...rapport lacking in some of the other pieces. You may not agree with Schumacher's most profoundly-held life truth, "that the world is divided between people who have had analysis and people who haven't," but at least you are presented with a real character instead of a mere...
...biography of Crosby, Black Sun, Geoffrey Wolff stresses Crosby's notion of madness as a short-cut to genius. And there is undoubtedly a manic quality to many of the jottings that goes beyond mere eccentricity. His entry for January 1, 1929 begins...