Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers of the editorial columns in this newspaper will take seriously the reporting of drug usage at Ivy League colleges in The Poisoned Ivy. Even the stodgiest member of the class of 1943 sitting alone at night in his Straus Hall reunion suite will spot a rush job when he sees it and chuckle with disbelief at both the title of the book and chapter headings like "New Desire Under the Elms...
Back to Work. Those fears seemed to be ungrounded. Though De Gaulle moved a tank regiment into the vicinity of Paris and alerted a few reserve units, there was no fresh rush to the barricades by his opponents, the workers and the anarchical students led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Shoring up his government, De Gaulle fired eight Ministers, including just about everyone identified with his old social and labor policies, and switched two important portfolios: Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville went to the Treasury, while Finance Minister Michel Debré moved over to the Quai d'Orsay...
...life, all is not so well. Joe and his wife Karen (Lee Remick) split up. That is bad enough, but then it turns out that she is a nymphomaniac who likes to pick up guys in bars. His world is coming apart, and so is the movie-with a rush of irrelevancies about slum conditions and precinct-house rivalries. Suddenly, a complex new subplot is folded into the proceedings, about a financial wheeler-dealer who commits suicide...
What's all the rush? Slow down, let's wait...
...like birds with golden wings the measured bell notes fly outward and upward, passing with clear and faint regret the ultimate slender rush of cross and spire; and how like the plummet lark the echo, singing, falls...