Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good Smiles. Ford has his drawbacks. He can be slow in repartee, and his hesitations show. To make this less noticeable, Ford's team coaxed the Carter group into allowing seven cameras in the theater to provide closeups, zoom shots and split-screen lens movement that may help animate Ford's wooden image. He is being coached on certain words that give him trouble. He tends, for example, to say "judg-uh-ment," stretching the word into three syllables. None of this worries his close friend Senator Robert Griffin very much: "People don't expect much from...
...They cherish its abundant yields and convivially share them. If life in the South seems to move more slowly than it does elsewhere, it may be because Southerners take more time to enjoy it. As Poet-Novelist James Dickey (Deliverance) has written, "The South has a long tradition of slow-moving, of standing and watching, of having the time-of giving ourselves the time-to sit on country porches and courthouse Confederate monuments and on green benches in public parks and tell each other stories, gossip and use words." The conversation is richly spiced with humor in all its forms...
...here to skin a cat without getting hair in your mouth." If things are going well, "life's just a slide on a doughnut." There is also the Southern man who lies so much that he needs someone else to call his dog. Similes fall like raindrops: slow as a pond, high as a pine, sorry as gully dirt...
...personal level she says she no longer notices that she is the only woman or one of very few women at a given meeting. Change, according to Horner, is coming to Harvard but the process is a slow one. She says she hopes that by Radcliffe's centennial in 1979 a definite direction and future will have been publicly plotted out for Radcliffe. She also says she believes that as attention is focused around the community and among alumnae on the centennial, Radcliffe "will come to stand for the rubric of feminism...
Whether or not faculty members are relieved that the social activism of the late '60s has died down, they almost unanimously find preprofessionalism a cause for concern. Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, chairman of the Government Department, last spring spearheaded an effort to slow down what he calls grade inflation by limiting the number of A's given out in Gov tutorials. Part of his motivation was a desire to restore the Faculty's old academic standards; but part of it, he says, was also a feeling that because good grades come so easily in most courses, students...