Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are signs that now--just three weeks after The Handbook of Prescription Drugs went on sale--Burack is getting impatient with his role as the tolerant doctor. In a rare moment of confidentiality during an interview last week, he leaned over and said, "You know, between you and me, it's silly to pussyfoot around here. I think it's time to clean this thing up right...
...time for Mailer to write his "big novel," and it is said that he's hard at work on it. He's 44, and his moment is at hand; can he produce a book so large in vision, so perfect in execution, that the entire fabric of the national character is irrevocably altered? In its agony, the country cries out, he feels, for such a book, such a man. Mailer thinks he's got the guts and the talent to pull it off. That he has the personal grace and the devotion of a champion is conceded...
...Control & Computers. Such unblinking vigilance over the slightest details of their vast operation is typical of Canada's Expo initiators. From the moment in 1962 when International Exhibitions picked Montreal as the site for '67 (over Moscow, which showed early enthusiasm for an exhibition, then faded from contention), the Canadians began trying to achieve perfection. Principal spark plug was Montreal's dynamic mayor, Jean Drapeau, who buoyantly declared as the first-stage preparations began: "Montreal will not be plagued by lack of imagination...
Whether Sherrill will be a tight-or easy-money governor of the FRB remains to be seen. For the moment, at least, he is determined to stay unfettered by dogmatic stands on Washington's monetary and banking controversies...
...stage space. To be on stage is to be in the middle of the action. Midsummer Night's Dream, inconveniently is punctuated by the discovery of a sleeping character by his lover, rival or master. It is not necessary that characters be concealed in subterranean niches until the proper moment, but surely it is not desirable that they be left like public statues in mid-stage. The scene in which Hermia and Helena tear at each other becomes silly because of the fidgetings of onlookers who could be set apart from the women if there were a larger stage...