Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donovan was relaxing in his swimming pool at New York City's suburban Sands Point when a telephone call from Jimmy Carter caused him to amend his portfolio. Donovan's new post: Senior Adviser at the White House, charged with providing "substantive advice on the full range of matters before the President...
When asked how long he expected to serve, Donovan replied: "At some point in the fall, we will pause and see how it is working. This will give each of us a chance to see if it's effective...
...STYLE IS well adapted to depicting what is, after all, the almost unbelievable pain inflicted on a community, and a boy, under German occupation. By writing of the war from an individual's point-of-view, Haviaras makes its terror more tangible. Devastation is incomprehensible on a large scale; to have emotional impact, it must be brought down to the level of one person. And because he writes of a place where the identity of the individual is bound up in that of the community, by writing of the individual's anguish he also conveys the anguish of the community...
...that point REMVEC sent out an order to electric companies in Eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont to cut back on their electrical load by interrupting service to a large number of customers," Harprey added...
...away. Olivier is a man of the stage, and cold entrances don't suit him; it takes him awhile to warm up. The only time Badham holds on him for any length of time is after he's just rammed a stake through his daughter's heart, at which point he emits a series of ludicrously overwrought sobs. And the accent? "The vampire vants your blid," he explains at one point. The shame....the shame...