Word: savors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concern about language is only a pedant's despair. Some of the preoccupation masks a cynical delight in the absurdities that people are capable of perpetrating with words No one worries very much about the schoolmarm's strictures against am t and "it's me." Connoisseurs savor genuine follies like those of the new priests of thanatology, who describe dying as terminal living," or the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare who explained a $61.7 million cut in social services as "advance downward adjustments." But whatever mirth there may be in these and other buffooneries, euphemisms, pomposities...
...more Americans than ever were braving blisters, bites and backaches to hear the babble of clear streams and have night skies as a ceiling-to savor, in Thoreau's phrase, "life near the bone where it is sweetest." And despite all the rush and crowding, those with stamina and imagination were still not too late to find adventure in tranquil places...
...Python--this movie was made before it became the Rowan and Martin of the mid-seventies--but something's done it. Probably just a silly decision to concentrate on a single plot, making the whole hour and a half seem like one extended joke that very quickly loses its savor. Monty Python's best routines have often been its shortest, and the longer ones--like "The Piranha Brothers" and "Fairy Tale"--were very often the only losers on their records. And Now for Something Completely Different was extremely funny, leaping from skit to skit without worrying much about continuity. Monty...
...this is good, but no more so than the peace of empty days after a lifetime full of crowded ones. Indeed, the most touching sequence in the film is Clara's first night in the hospital. She wonderingly explores her spacious, airy room, sits down to savor a simple attractive meal in solitude, tucks herself between crisp sheets with nothing but a book for company. The contrast between this thought-provoking silence and the numbing intrusions on her spirit that we have witnessed in the film's opening sections could not be more vividly evoked. In a directorial...
...Harvard swim team won the Super Bowl of Eastern swimming last weekend against Princeton. The Crimson cannot savor its victory for very long, however, as this afternoon the Harvard aquamen face Cornell, the most improved team in the Ivies, in a 2 p.m. meet...