Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOMENT OF TRUTH. A rigorous but eloquent ritual drama about the short, tragic life of a great bullfighter, played by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo...
...noisy, one at that; the majority of American youth would say, "Not me." But the youth that makes the noise sets the tone, and the tone remains significant-and unique in comparison with the rest of the world. The noisy, "alienated" young are an American monopoly at the moment...
...unequivocal support for the Atlantic Alliance and a truly united political Europe. "It is sad to note," he observed, "how much Gaullism has come to resemble Vichy, with a monarch and a little court." De Gaulle was like Madame du Barry before the guillotine, he said, pleading "Just another moment, just another moment, Mr. Executioner." The force de frappe? "De Gaulle's diplomatic toy, about as effective for France as the Maginot Line...
...Vienna, annoyed by Nikita Khrushchev's description of the Soviet Union as a young nation and the U.S. as an old one, and replying, "If you'll look across the table, you'll see that we're not so old." Here, in a less weighty moment, is Kennedy at his children's bedtime, inventing stories about "Caroline hunting with the Orange County hounds and winning the Grand National and John in his PT boat sinking a Japanese destroyer...
...much as $5,000 for a quarterhorse, and most of them-like matadors-maintain practice rings of their own, where they train their mounts for months to anticipate each move of a zigzagging calf, to stop instantly ("sticking 'em into the ground," in rodeo talk) at the precise moment the lariat settles around the Brangus' neck...