Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death of Jomo Kenyatta last week, which raised questions about the future of Kenya, evoked sharp memories for a trio of TIME writers and correspondents who covered the African leader at different stages of his long and spectacular career...
LEADERSHIP. Even his harshest critics agree that he is as sharp as ever mentally, but George Meany has saddled the union movement with an unfortunate image. In what has to be the understatement of the year, Chaikin, an admirer of Meany, ruefully concedes that the AFL-CIO boss turns people off because, "he does not have the personality of an ever-smiling, ever-effusive, warm, merry-appearing man." One university expert on labor adds that Meany's performances on TV "must strike the 24-year-olds, a quarter of whom are college-educated, as something out of prehistoric ages...
...size of that margin tends to obscure the often sharp debate that the proposal produced among Faculty members. Opponents teed off on two key points. The first of these was based on the philosophical premise that no faculty is competent to judge what areas of knowledge constitute the "core" that is essential to a completely educated person. William H. Bossert '59, McKay Professor of Appplied Mathematics and author of a counter-proposal to thbe Core, poked fun at what he saw as the Core's attempt to eliminate ignorance in all areas. Said Bossert: "The summed ignorance of this particular...
Last year the security guards now posted in just about all U.S. airports seized precisely 2,034 weapons-most of them carried by passengers about to board planes, others discarded in airport washrooms or behind the plastic palms in the waiting areas. Despite the sharp increase in air travel so far this year, the weapons take is off by about 25%. As of mid-August, the Federal Aviation Administration reports, the total of pistols, rifles, Mace canisters and assorted other items of hardware seized had reached "only...
...good. The problem with Girl Friends is the movie itself: Weill's film is not half so interesting as its intentions. There are some nice things in it-finely shaded performances, a couple of amusing scenes-but they cannot carry a movie that lacks such essentials as sharp writing, cinematic flair and a strong point of view. Could it be that Weill spent so much energy producing Girl Friends that she was all tuckered out once she began to shoot? The film feels tired...