Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS WEEK'S SNOWSTORM could have easily been scripted by French playwright Jean Anouilh. Sunday night, Act I, everything transformed--fences, archways, and street signs--into a campus-wide version of Zhivago's ice palace. But, over the next two days, the scene changed as the snow melted into sluggish tears, the tears turning into rivers of slush and mud. By mid-week and the final curtain, all had frozen. Ice. The trees--their branches torn and crippled and frozen--stood out in painful ugliness against a threatening...
Typical of such half-heartedness is the treatment of the song "Why don't we do it in the road?" A song with such a simple structure needs, and is ideally suited for, extensive musical exploration. The Beatles waste this opportunity with pedantic and sluggish guitar work and a generally uninspired musical conception, though Ringo tries hard. As a result the song falls flatter than it might have; particularly so because the shock value of the first line--"Why don't we do it in the road?"--is undercut by the second line which goes "No one will be watching...
...inadequately veiled subject is of course the Kennedys (here named Alec and Andrea Girard) and the people around them during their brief years in Washington. The story picks up round about 1960 and inches through the primaries and the election, breeding along the way several sluggish subplots. At some indeterminate date, the book leaves what may for simplicity's sake be called historical fact and concentrates on 1) the tragic illness (leukemia) of the President's little daughter, 2) the marital difficulties of one of the invented characters, and 3) a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. There...
...Defensively, Harvard was adequate. After Champi's opening successes, the backfield stiffened and kept all second team receivers tightly covered. The defensive line seemed a little sluggish in its pursuit, but it was a hot day, after...
This, in turn, would require sluggish bureaucracies to respond more rapidly to social needs. John W. Gardner put it best at Cornell's commencement earlier this month, when he imagined himself as a 23rd century thinker. He had discovered, he said, that "20th century institutions were caught in a savage crossfire between uncritical lovers and unloving critics. On the one side, those who loved their institutions tended to smother them in an embrace of death, loving their rigidities more than their promise, shielding them from life-giving criticism. On the other side, there arose a breed of critics without...