Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the trial began, Ted Kennedy confided to members of the family his conviction that the Kennedys' position should be made public at the right moment. As a lawyer, he knew that it would be out of place to make a statement until the trial was over and the sentence imposed. Then there would be time for the judge to soften the sentence, or for a reprieve from the Governor...
Then what does he do with his life? What will be his career? He expresses an ardent desire to fulfill himself by helping others. The careers he favors at the moment are social work, psychology, city planning. Poverty work is increasingly popular. VISTA, for example, is swamped with applicants, including 856 graduating law students, or about 5% of the total number finishing law school this spring. Despite all the major objections to U.S. policy in Viet Nam, applications to the Foreign Service continue to rise and those to the Peace Corps remain steady. A desire to avoid the draft figures...
Ford's films of the 'thirties forcefully present the emotions of individuals. Lighting idealizes the actors' faces and bodies to yield the essence of a sentiment. Different kinds of shots (dynamic severely-lit low-angle, balanced light-flooded eye-level) are used moment by moment to change the film's emotional emphasis. As in Birth of a Nation, even single shots are given several emotional directions by the placement and movement of the several characters. The subject of this drama is individual sentiment; its type, melodrama, whether historical (Mary of Scotland), social (Tobacco Road), or familial (How Green). Society exists...
...rapid montage of sentiment in How Green Was My Valley threatens society's solidity each moment that these sentiments create society. In one scene a Morgan boy leads other townsfolk in song. Singing scenes, like fight and dance scenes, in Ford show group activity in which each person's behavior is laid down by tradition. A fight scene in The Searchers (1956), for example, gives participants and spectators secure roles. The tension generated when one man picks up a stick of wood turns into warmth and humor when he sets it as a boundary marker. No such security comes from...
...butt, let him. P.T. coupons are an unjustified attempt to direct a student's activities. Aside from the matter of justification, these coupons just do not work and the athletic department is foolish to persist with this system. If those in charge consider the situation for a moment, they will decide that this year's freshmen will be the last...