Word: skittish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Truffaut took notes on Day for Night for four years, jotting down stories he heard about film making or incidents that had happened in the past on his own sets. One of the many problems that plague the production of Meet Pamela-an insurance company balks at backing a skittish leading lady-came from a similar wrangle over Julie Christie when Truffaut was preparing Fahrenheit 451. A scene of a cat lapping milk off a breakfast tray, simple in conception but tortuous in execution because of a recalcitrant feline, had its origins in a similar sequence in The Soft Skin...
...fellow Republicans quickly picked up the danger signals. Ford tried to pin things down before they slipped away. Said he: "I think there ought to be a select committee and that we ought to act. He deserves an open, public hearing." But that only made the Democrats more skittish...
...disbursing large amounts of Republican Party secret funds for political intelligence work. Kalmbach, a Californian and a close friend of Haldeman's, handled the legal work and financial arrangements when Nixon bought his seaside home in San Clemente and has been an active Nixon fund raiser. When skittish San Diego businessmen were hesitant about bankrolling the Republican National Convention planned for their city, Kalmbach's firm got a letter from the Justice Department assuring them that their contributions would be tax deductible. By doing good for Nixon, Kalmbach has done well for himself. In 1968, he had only...
...treatment of homosexuality is still skittish. Homosexual characters hardly even touch one another. It is as if the networks were earnestly trying to be adult-but not too adult. Some homosexuals, like Novelist Merle Miller (What Happened), applaud a show like That Certain Summer-a good drama by any standards-for its realistic and compassionate approach. Gay activists, however, complain that even Summer did not go far enough...
When Scott arrived at Oberlin last year, the reaction was surprisingly skittish for a liberal institution that prides itself on being the first white college to admit blacks (1835) and the first college to graduate women (1837): four of the 14 staffers in the athletic department, including the football and basketball coaches, resigned. "Sports will be destroyed at Oberlin," one coach warned darkly. Scott, noting that...