Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gaping Loophole. Skeptics were quick to point out that the Administration had merely denied reports that it had been asked by parties unknown to deploy nuclear weapons; no one specifically repudiated gossip that their use was under consideration by the Pentagon. Nor did General Wheeler ease the skeptics' concern when he was asked at a press conference about using tactical nukes in Viet Nam. Sidestepping the broad question, he repeated: "I do not think that nuclear weapons will be required to defend Khe Sanh." The implication, to many, was that nukes were at least available as a last resort...
...council sent the budget to the finance committee virtually without comment. The committee's chairman, Alfred E. Vellucci, promised "speedy meetings on this City budget" to get "a quick tax rate." Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. asked Vellucci if he was predicting that the rate would go down. Vellucci replied "I'm praying...
...Proposition--clearly modeled after the now-famed Chicago improvisational troupes -- strenuously avoids stooping for the easy, gag-line laughs. Trying to create original situational humor, the production occasionally sacrifices a quick laugh in pursuit of something deeper, but that's the course an improvisational group must follow to be more than a cut-rate Neil Simon show. When the sought-after originality breeds laughs, then you've got a winner, and The Proposition wins more than it loses...
Psychic "opening up," Lifton concludes, becomes in itself a treasured experience. This is the goal of numerous emotional experiments in contemporary life-including the use of psychedelic drugs. Lifton is quick to add, however, that these drugs can produce their own brand of psychic numbing...
...surprises include an uncharacteristic Fragonard. "Pirtrait of a Man as Don Quixote." Deviating from his customary pink skies, many-petticoated plastic girls and French delicacy, Fragonard provides here an eighteenth century antecedent for van Gogh's thick and quick brushstrokes, and sharp outlines...