Word: midstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former U.S. Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41, appearing at the Law School Forum Saturday afternoon, said he sees many "encouraging signs in Watergate at this midstream stage" and that he hopes Watergate "will create a new perception of the need to disperse federal power...
Kissinger failed in one effort in the Middle East. He had wanted to be airborne when the treaty was signed at Kilometer 101 so that he would not be physically in either country and open to charges of favoritism (like the raft in midstream at Tilsit?). But a delay in the signing made it impossible; he was with Sadat. Successful or not, it was the kind of personal touch that has helped Henry Kissinger to stand out in these dark times...
Sheed has camouflaged his simplistic view of human motivation with the literary techniques developed in his earlier work. He divides his story in half, changes narrators in midstream and works endless transformations of style. Preoccupied with technique, he fails to provide enough information to create even the most casual sympathy. The most sophisticated campaign saga, after all, is a failure if the reader doesn't care who wins the election...
...American grain. The glorification of the criminal is not the product of new films like Super Fly but ancient legends like Billy the Kid. Drug abuse did not flower with the poppies of Viet Nam; it escaped the ghetto in the early '60s and spread to the American midstream. As for authority figures, it takes no sociologist to realize that institutions and establishments, from universities to Senate subcommittees, had been ossifying for decades...
...December I was always very sullen with Barrie. His jokes annoyed me, his endless anecdotes seemed pointless, and the incessant cold, inside and out, of a London winter felt more chill with him. I grumbled about it, I cut off his rantings in midstream, I complained about everything when I was with...