Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week's events suggested that Somoza may yet have his mind made up for him. In Panama, safe, sound and almost delirious with triumph, the Sandinistas, with their newly released comrades, were no doubt preparing for some new victories. Cero assured his captives when he bade them goodbye: "We'll be back in two months...
...seven-part series was shot in Hardy's own Dorset, and the accents sound suitably provincial. So suitable, indeed, that many Americans might wish for subtitles; it takes a keen ear to sort out all the vagaries of the Southwest Country dialect. But accent is not the main problem with this solid, dutiful adaptation. The main fault is pace, or the lack of it. Director David Giles moves Hardy's improbabilities with all too probable slowness. Despite Bates, Hardy and the best efforts of everyone else, TV's Mayor of Casterbridge is only occasionally exciting...
...dean--human precision, varying according to individuals. Sometimes we make a mistake--just as sometimes two incompatible souls find themselves sharing a freshman room, or a student is called on the carpet because his transcript has been misread. And, sometimes we lose our tempers, give way to emotion, and sound almost as vindicative and petty as the average speaker at a Faculty debate. If anyone believes that we might, by arguing for an objective apporach to the news--an approach that is neither pro- nor anit-administration--cease to become human, then in those eyes we are surely guilty...
...Senate have to say about that? Nothing official, but Majority Leader Robert Byrd was described by a Senate aide as "on fire." Said Byrd himself: "When we get into the business of tit for tat, it could go from bad to worse." The House leadership tried to sound reassuring. One Congressman said scornfully that "the bed welters among us are notoriously bothered right now." An aide to Speaker Tip O'Neill predicted that the matter would soon be added to some new piece of legislation and that the vote would be reversed. If that happens, construction of the great...
...encoded. Seeing what Pound saw before it filtered through his mind helps break that code. Sometimes the pictures simply amplify the words. Two pages of dark, roiling skyscape follow lines on Pisan's "undoubtedly various" clouds. More often than not though, a photographic sight helps explain a sound. A line like "Can Grande's grin like Tommy Cochran's" is meaningless without the knowledge that Tommy Cochran was "a kid" Pound knew as a youth, and without an image of the statue Can Grande della Scala in Verona. The statue and the grin are here...