Word: savoring
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...Address, but it lights up the audience. Sample warm-up joke: A man in traction in a hospital pays no attention to the visitor bending anxiously over him. Finally, the patient opens his eyes and explains in a discreet Irish brogue that he kept silent because he wanted to savor the moment: "It's been six months here since I've had a drink, and your breath is like the rain from heaven...
...until July rolls around, when I can savor the hoopla of Olympic basketball and appreciate the runs and jumps and swims which I grew up on, I'll just have to look back to Innsbruck...
Still, Kissinger had at least some encouraging news to savor late last week as he was beginning a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels: Representative Otis Pike's House Committee on Intelligence dropped a request that he be held in contempt of Congress. The Administration had angered the committee by refusing to give it internal State Department documents on U.S. covert activity abroad. But Pike finally agreed to a compromise under which the White House told the committee what was in the documents without actually handing them over. The White House's capitulation rescued Kissinger from...
Though Barry Lyndon includes the duels, battles and romantic intrigues that we are conditioned to expect in movies about the past, it more often than not cuts away from this easy-to-savor material. This cool distancing suggests that the melodramatic passions normally sustaining our interest in films are petty matters. This vision of the past, like Kubrick's vision of the future in 2001, invites us to experience an alien world not through its characters but with them-sensorially, viscerally. Stanley Kubrick's idea of what constitutes historical spectacle does not coincide with many people...
Four years ago those entering Harvard could savor the lingering aftertaste of five years of revolution. (Well, attempted revolution.) Now, as distinguished professors freeze slowly into grotesque shapes in Widener studies, they need not worry about students storming their sancta. As students thaw out their textbooks before beginning an evening of problem sets, they no longer have to worry about being disturbed by the sounds of peers capturing the commanding heights of capitalism. As always, in such transitional periods, literature often reflects the fledgling zeitgeist. The other day I found the following ballad aerosolled on the columns of Widener...