Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stop & Go. Indeed, another futile bombing pause aimed at improving the prospects for peace could have precisely the opposite effect. "With every cessation of bombing," observed New York Representative Emanuel Celler, "the hopes of our people for peace rose, only to be dashed by the negation of peace by the North Vietnamese." Because such frustration only intensifies demands for escalating the war, he said, "it is foolhardy to play with the emotions of our people by continued stop-and-go signs." To U.S. military planners, more than emotions are involved. A pause, said General William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander...
...east-to-west transit of the skies. Then, as Mercury picked up even more speed, whipped past its point of closest approach to the sun, and began to slow down as it receded farther out into space again, the sun would appear to move backward toward the east, stop again, and then resume its journey for the remainder...
...while with his soaring silkiness, Rostropovich traced wide melodic angles ranging from sad loveliness to brittle dissonance. "I hope it is better than anything else I've written," said Piston. Then he set off to try to do even better on two new commissions. "You can't stop," he explained. "Music is a vice that takes hold...
...Pearce, a homosexual Superman. Of the remaining four stories, the best is Man Bring This Up Road, a chilling confrontation between a hickory-hard, female old moneybags and an aging, importunate beach boy-which provided the theme for Williams' 1963 flop play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore...
...Pudding show, by definition, allows for and even capitalizes on its numerous shortcomings. Only when the proceedings stop is it in trouble. For that reason, while saluting the urge which produced them, I have to register objection to three attempts to make legitimate this joyfully bastard show: the self-conscious counterpoint of the "Like You Like It" reprise; the weak, semi-serious ballad, "Is It Really Me"; and the tedious choreography of Pan's Dance, which wastes the considerable talents of Director Wilson and dancer Ron Porter...