Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STANLEY Whitfield, Miss...
...problem with analyzing a problem by breaking it down to components is that one obtains "such a narrow focus that we psychologize and miss the totality of the problem," he said...
However kind the camera tries to be to her, Miss Ball is still the victim of her vehicle. Jerry Herman's music and lyrics ("You make carnations bloom in the mud, Ma-aa-me") abuse the ear. The screenplay, by the Pulitzer-prizewrnning playwright Paul Zindel, is full of inexcusable dialogue ("I haven't got you anything for Christmas yet, but how about a kiss on account?" "You know who Mame is-she's the Pied Piper"). Beatrice Arthur, the rage right now as television's Maude, brings the movie to life whenever she appears...
Shultz's economic policies may not have always been effective, but his candor, honesty and tacking ability are assets that the Administration will miss...
...from formal education, which he abandoned in high school. The learning that mattered to him began almost at birth. His childhood in turn-of-the-century Oxford, Miss., was spent listening to Civil War tales told by old men who had been at Shiloh and Appomattox. He absorbed family pride indirectly from his illustrious great-grandfather Colonel William C. Falkner (as the name was then spelled), hero, scoundrel, founder of a railroad and writer who became the doomed, quixotic colonel of Sartoris in 1929. Blotner devotes 50 pages to the recitation of every known fact about the old colonel, forgetting...