Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Multiple crises, both personal and national, were surely at hand, and the embattled President was determined to demonstrate that he was in control of them. In a rush of Washington meetings Richard Nixon, looking flushed and haggard but speaking with animation, explained his plans to deal with the oil crisis to his Cabinet, congressional leaders, business executives, Governors and mayors. He bantered with the Governors about football, asked Maryland's Governor Marvin Mandel what was wrong with the Baltimore Colts, and laughed at Mandel's reply: "They lack energy." Three times he told the Governors that the nation must "bite...
...world already strongly dominated by imperial powers, the Soviets have reached out to make a new partition. They have abandoned their role as the champions of anti-imperialism in their rush for territory, hegemony, unequal trade agreements and strategic defense. Eastern Europe provides not only a wall of buffer states against the armies of Europe (one of which devastated Russia in 1940), but a trading area the Soviets can milk for specialized products and skills. The Soviets have steadfastly refused to negotiate a permanent border with the People's Republic, and have fought several minor border wars in an effort...
...myself for ever worshipping his music. I mean, how could any 16-year-old not want to sing so plaintively, write so cryptically, look at the world through such sensitive eyes, and feel so wrongfully hurt? Now, for the price of admission, you can buy "After the Gold Rush" and dream about how it used to be. Not better, but perhaps simpler...
...good opportunity to see two sides of Charlie Chaplin: The Gold Rush (1925) at the Orson Welles, M. Verdoux (1947) at Central Square. I think The Gold Rush is his funniest movie--and it may even be more insightful than the more serious Verdoux. Verdoux represents a Chaplin embittered by the depression and the war. Chaplin was eager to strike at the hypocrisy of the governments of the world for crimes which, as he explains at the end of Verdoux, hurt far more people than did the unscrupulous lady killer of the title. M. Verdoux is a subtle and unsettling...
...lies about iron-poor blood and expect America to leave everything up to the technological whizzes who have brought us where we are today. There is nothing wrong with this country that a few atomic-energy plants can't cure, the Geritol addicts will say. And they will rush into the exploitation of new resources without thinking twice about little niceties like the environment or quality of life in this country...