Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tentatively, Engelhardt envisions discussion groups on different social problems, a film series dealing with the peace movement and civil rights, and a quick course on draft counseling itself. The Project will also work closely with the Summer school Forum, a student group sponsoring controversial speakers on campus...
...Quick with both his rhymes and rages, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 34, had a few angry verses after he learned of Dr. Benjamin Spock's conviction for conspiracy to incite draft evasion. In a poem titled "Monologue to Dr. Spock," Evtushenko proclaimed that there is far more sense in the "eternally constant goo-goo of a child than in the whole generation of shameless politicians." A fine sentiment, though it lost a bit in the translation. Russian...
...Greensboro (N.C.) News was angry enough to drop the strip for good, along with another strip where evildoers are casually obliterated without benefit of trial, Little Orphan Annie. Explained the paper on Page One: "We have been quick to criticize other communications media for exploiting and even glorifying violence. However, we have our own weaknesses in this field, and it is only right that we take the necessary steps to bring our practices into line with our editorial policy...
...baseball's turn-of-the-century Hall of Fame outfielder who set slugging records in the difficult days of Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and the dead ball; of a stroke; in Hollywood. "Now the game is all different," complained the Wahoo, Neb., whiz. "Then it was strategy and quick thinking, and if you didn't play with your noodle you didn't play at all." Through 19 years in both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home-run honors with the Cincinnati Reds...
...essays and articles for a variety of magazines between 1961 and 1967. Most of the subject matter is conventional, perhaps even overworked. Yet it approaches art, not merely because Author Didion has an unforgetting reporter's ear, nor simply because she can hit human vagaries with the quick, poisonous aim of an aroused rattlesnake...