Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is one primary disability that you can see in the American scene. This is the short-term approach. You see this in the State Department when short-term considerations take precedence over long-range plans because the short-term considerations relate to the crisis of the moment. and the crisis is contingent to what the story, and the NSC [National Se-the story, and the NSC [National Security Council] must meet and decide. If the word goes out on the telescreen tape, we can act very fast and make decisions. We can move to deal with the current crisis...
...focus for the line-up against Peking, and vice-versa--the occasion on which we glare at each other. If there weren't the Vietnam war, what would there be in place of it? You'd expect that there would be something. And the mood in Peking, at the moment, of pushing into Burma and Nepal, and all these various things, suggests that the Chinese side would not be content with an American presence in say, Thailand, even if it were not in Vietnam. The problem is to choose your ground, and I suppose we have a general feeling that...
...dirty dozen have it completely -- from the moment one of them gives their officer (Lee Marvin) a little lip and gets a fist in the mouth. We're for Marvin too: he's the one who puts the twelve convicts in fighting shape and communicates to them the we-row-together-or-we're-sunk notion. Their mission is blowing up a chateau-load of German generals, but the main problem is getting the convicts to work as a team. They're of course restless under authority. Still, Marvin--no convict, but not a sweet-talking guy--gives the officers...
...School's summer session will include 200-300 students, ranging in age from six to ripe adulthood; each will pay a nominal fee. At the moment the school has no home and, said Miss Lewis, "we will work in the streets if necessary...
...hope that the spectacle of two groups of Harvard snobs berating each other for their snobbery has repaid the summies for any slight blow to their egos. But I also hope that it gave them, as the stared in awe at Widener, a moment's pause. If this community cannot take a reasonably harmless joke on itself, then the "I Go Here in the Winter" buttons have even less value than their creator would like to believe. Stephen Nightingale...