Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Answering the first of U Thant's three points, a call for an end to U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam, Goldberg vowed that the Administration will gladly halt the raids "the moment we are assured" that Hanoi will curb its war effort. As for a mutual reduction of military activity, Thant's second point, Goldberg pointed out that the U.S. has repeatedly urged a supervised, phased withdrawal of "all external forces." On Thant's third point, inclusion of the Viet Cong in peace negotiations, the U.S. ambassador noted that this was not, in President Johnson...
...meticulously tracked by radar sensors (which can follow an object as small as a .30-cal. rifle bullet 200 miles into space), computers and special cameras with a range of 50,000 miles. The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) can tell where every object is at any given moment. Of the orbiting objects, 251 are "useful payloads"-201 American, 43 Russian, three French, two British and two Canadian. The remaining 860 pieces are ''garbage," including Mike Collins' lost Hasselblad camera and Dick Gordon's jettisoned space pack. (Ed White's glove has dropped...
...love, Angelica, played by Lucy Martin, unfortunately the most poorly drawn of Congreve's characters) Valentine, though a rake in the past, is now the man free of the life of "continued affectation" which surrounds him. In the last scene, his sincerity and sobriety provide the one dramatic moment of the Charles production which is not just funny. Then everybody starts the frug. Like the show itself, the dance entertains, but it makes Congreve's quiet thrust at meaning pointless. I would have thought the one thing that a repertory company might have learned from modern drama is to take...
...moment's inspection later indicated that it actually meant baby fat, but in girl-picking as in horse racing, systems are always infallible and human judgement the ever-present bugaboo...
...only themselves but other voices by other specialists. The Family Meadow, for example, could be an unconscious transcription of John Cheever's The Day the Pig Fell into the Well; it is a memorable elegy to a family at its high point of felicity, caught at the moment before its dissolution. Yet the story is Updike's own; it is clearly his identifiably New Jersey-Pennsylvania family he is writing about, and the note he sounds is ironic; so far, he has left others to blow the tragic basses...