Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found your article most disconcerting. In my entire life I have seen nothing so perverse as these jet-age pleasure seekers unwittingly mutilating the natural charm of an isolated environment-destroying the very reason for which they came. In a short time the salient features of Morocco will not be deserted mosques or lonely hills but the tinsel and glitter of hotels, the ugly stretches of concrete highways, and most regrettably, the ubiquitous tourist...
...latest weapon in the campaign is this handbook, published late last December. The book makes no pretensions of literary sparkle or cohesion; guessing that politicians and journalists would rather develop their own cases against the planes, Shurcliffe merely presents a barrage of facts in 30 short chapters. But the facts, of course, cannot be neutral, and what emerges from the handbook is an impressive condemnation of the whole SST project...
...never had before. "Jesus!" He leaped from his bed and turned on the light. His whole body had been covered with spiders and snakes and maggots--he had suddenly felt himself part of a swarming, clawing, terrifying bed of slime and dirt. The boy remembered a short story he had read once about a man in a cave filled with spiders. What had there been on the other side of that mountain...
Witcover attempted to deal with Kennedy's campaign in the traditional mold of journalist-authors and failed to get at the essence of his subject. Halberstam succeeds in his short mood work. The Harper's contributing editor has learned to deal with the new politics and the changes in campaign style by adapting his style. It is a hopeful sign...
...goal to Cavanagh who promptly shot the puck home as goalie Jim McCann stood watching. The teams then moved back to defense until the end of the period when suddenly Harvard came to life and only spectacular saves by McCann averted any score as B.U. ended the period short-handed...