Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GLASS BOOTH is a dramatic offspring of the Adolf Eichmann trial, reviving the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity, and the paranoid personality of the archkiller. The play's best excuse for being is a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity by Donald Pleasence. He is like a neurotic blood relative whom one cannot abide or yet disown. He is as hallucinatorily real as a dream from which one cannot awaken...
Content for the most part to let the story unfold before his camera, Axel also uses his editing to compound the violence that provides so much of the epic's power. The man-to-man battle scenes are uniquely agonizing (as well as bloody). Romance flows like blood on the beach of a fiord where pounding surf drowns out the horses' hoofbeats...
...record of the past four years only tentatively suggests how important the fund-manipulation has been. Since the federal government gained the power to withhold the school grants in 1964, it has used it against only 115 school districts--most of them in Mississippi and Georgia...
WITHOUT the fund power, the government knew its efforts would be confined to the Courts. Recent Supreme Court and Circuit Court decisions have explicitly ordered school districts to scrap any systems that aren't working. The problem, as both the school districts and HEW realized, is that the decisions don't mean anything until they are formally enforced by federal courts. Court efforts have complemented the fund cut-offs for the last four years, but at an agonizingly slow rate...
Detroit, finally living up to its reputation for awesome plate power, unsheathed its bats in the top of the third. The Tigers sent 15 men to the plate to face four different and equally ineffective Cardinal pitchers and cracked out seven base hits, including Jim Northrup's grand-slam homer...