Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Editor's note -- This article was prepared by Matthias H. Klinke, last year's Harbus photographer and an expert German skier and equipment dealer. It is being reprinted with slight modifications because of its practical point of view and expert insight...
TARTUFFE. While Moliere has suffered a slight miscarriage of esthetic justice in this broad and bouncy Lincoln Center presentation of his biting and bitter comedy, the performance of Michael O'Sullivan in the title role is a splendidly surrealistic wedding of malice and humor...
...Johnson ruefully explained that Greene was "pulling my leg"; only a few days before, Johnson had been quoted in the newspapers as having said that the U.S. might have to stay in South Viet Nam for another ten years. "Who trapped you into saying that?" asked Wheeler, a slight edge to his voice. Johnson defended himself...
...speaking of Churchill to the House, after a slight nod to the empty seat of the Member for Woodford, Prime Minister Harold Wilson suddenly seemed touched with the Churchillian magic. "Where the fighting was hottest, he was in it," Wilson recalled, "sparing none, nor asking for quarter. The creature and possession of no one party, he has probably been the target of more concentrated parliamentary invective from, in turn, each of the major parties than any other member of any parliamentary age, and against each in turn he turned the full force of his own parliamentary oratory." Churchill, said Wilson...
...however, this trend sharply reversed itself; and the number of men and women competing for one of the 8800 places available in the nation's approximately 90 accredited medical schools is expected to rise indefinitely, despite a slight sag in the applicant curve this year...