Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunker's exhortation, delivered in a White House office strewn with war charts and pacification graphs, succinctly summed up the Administration's guardedly optimistic view of the war as the nation's operating military and civilian chiefs returned from Viet Nam to report on its slow but promisingly tangible progress...
...After a slow start, Yale mauled Brown (35-0), Cornell (41-7), Dartmouth (56-15), Penn (44-22) and Princeton (29-7); Dartmouth has averaged 24 points a game, capped by a 41-6 scalping of Brown; Princeton boasts better than 30 points a game, and rates as its finest hour a 45-6 manhandling of Harvard-which in turn warmed up on outsider Lafayette 51-0, then stomped Columbia 49-13 and Penn...
With the aid of unemployed civil rights marchers and militant priests, Chavez, Alinsky & Co. ultimately won their strike. The revolutionary fever was slow to cool. As one union organizer put it afterward: "Success in our business means getting workers to middle-class status. The guy who carried a banner in 1966-well, in five years you're going to have a hard time getting him to a union meeting." It is that mood of inevitability that makes the anachronism of the Delano strike such compelling reading-and the strikers' success such a meaningful victory...
...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. One of Australia's leading writers tells a prickly story of a Brisbane family of intellectual pioneers who undergo a painful adjustment to a philistine society...
Rosenberg's spectre of authority is highly effective. Strother Martin is perfect as the camp warden. He speaks in a slow, mad, Truman Capote-like whine. In one scene, after savagely caning Luke, he looks at him writhing on the ground and says, "What we have here is a failure to communicate." This is the point--there is no communication between real men like Luke and the authority of a dull, oppressive society...