Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indivduals as for epochs the process of aging is normally a quiet and gradual affair, but the realization of youth having passed comes often as not with a suddenness, even a shock. Most of us, I suspect, mark that moment well and often thereafter in idle passages find ourselves touching the wound it left. My moment, and that of many like me, came with the death of Kennedy, and along with the others, I knew it. About the third day of that long, terrible time Mary McGrory said to me, "We'll never laugh again." And I answered, "Heavens, Mary...
...conviction of conspiracy mounts, and with it a burgeoning impulse to violence at home as well as abroad. Those of us caught in between, increasingly deprived of self assurance, begin to know the taste of self contempt, and think back to Yeats and the fore-knowledge of this moment...
...Regina and sick of the family's vulpine itch for plunder, Horace stubbornly refuses The play reaches its melodramatic peak when Horace suffers a heart spasm and pleads pitifully for his medicine. Regina lets him die without blinking an eye lash. That scene is still as chilling a moment of theater as it was when Tallulah Bankhead played the role (her finest...
...forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot...
...compromise between two extremes expressed this afternoon, but with a considered recommendation of the Administrative Board that this action was sufficient to have real deterrent effect and yet did take account of some of the confusions of the students involved, not just sincerity, but the difficulty in judging the moment when they were crossing the line from dissent into quite unacceptable use of force...