Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were. Dr. Krystal admits, some reasons for the market's slump that at first sight appear purely financial. But these realities, he insists, came into play only in a way dictated by the emotional needs of the investors. Many speculators, says Dr. Krystal. use the stock market as an outlet for their aggressive impulses. It is one place where they can make "killings" without conscious guilt. But at the deeper, unconscious level, he argues, the guilt builds up along with the wealth, and every boom must inevitably be followed by its reaction of widespread emotional depression that leads...
Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster Trevor Howard makes a superlative curmudgeon of Captain Bligh...
...Hove presumably rhymes with love. In a burlesque entitled "Last Drippings from the Great Certified Leak," the New York Times's senior columnist Arthur Krock, never wittier or more sardonic, suggests the word might first have been pronounced when McNamara predicted that a Soviet destroyer would "heave in sight." But ExComm's presiding officer, called "Himself," corrects him with "The word is hove." Otherwise, Krock turns ExComm into MadAv. "Let's melt this ball of wax and move the hardware from the shelf," suggests Krock's McNamara. "Suppose I start batting out the fungoes." Sorenson...
Bringing on the Bulldozers. A year ago, downtown Pomona seemed to be a terminal case. The main drag, Second Street, was a sorry sight; a third of its buildings were vacant, shops that once were elegant had become clustered holes-in-the-wall-paint peeling, screens rusted to holes. Businessmen and merchants who had not yet moved away were wondering if there was any future at all in the downtown area, and landlords were making things worse by forgoing repairs...
...though Chou himself has pronounced it "the worst series of disasters since the 19th century." Moreover, says Snow, what is a famine in New China would have been a feast in Old China. On this trip, he saw no starvation and little malnutrition. Everywhere he was struck with the sight of new cities, new highways and railroads, burgeoning new industries, happy people, smiling children. Crime has all but vanished, slums are clean and filled with bookstores and nurseries, soldiers are as dedicated as young priests, everyone conscientiously does his daily t'ai chi ch'aun calisthenics. Even...