Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love duet in Act IV, scene iv, does the melody become genuinely lyrical, as that term is conventionally understood. Debussy's concern for the melody and rhythm of speech, for themes which are insinuating rather than distinctive, for chamber orchestration like evanescent jewelry, and for an architecture of colors, suggest his profound differences with "the old ghost of Klingsor, alias Richard Wagner...
Perhaps, as some commentators suggest, we are moving through a turning point in history in which old ways of doing things are breaking up. Perhaps we are experiencing shattering fundamental changes the significance of which cannot yet be even dimly discerned. Some would like to have us believe this; but such explanations seem to me overdramatic. Nevertheless, unable to offer a better reason, I must at least concede the possibility that our colleges and universities are only among the first of institutions to be shaken by an all-encompassing sea-change now occurring around the world. Though I hope...
...soon as she has a body: that is her handicap. Mia Farrow's measurements are closely akin to a newel post's. "I look like an elephants' graveyard," she admits. Nevertheless, it is a body. The face is something else; the exquisite bone structure and the fine, flawless skin suggest an antique doll. But so do the faces of other girls. It is the immense, luminous eyes that make her unique, almost unearthly, like someone not born but drawn?perhaps by her old friend Salvador Dali, who calls her "a black moonchild, like Lilith. Her sex is not here...
LIVE UPTOWN . . . WORK DOWNTOWN. YOU CAN COMMUTE BY ELEVATOR IN SECONDS. As its full-page newspaper ads suggest, Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center is a most unusual building. The world's second tallest, the 1,107-ft.-high skyscraper* is designed, in effect, as an apartment house atop an office building. A forerunner of the multipurpose "vertical city" of the future, it also looks like a financial winner. As the first tenant moved in last week, the owner, Boston-based John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., predicted that by next year the building will be producing...
...Nixon's behind-the-scenes action in his administration's first domestic crisis has measurably dampened hopes for a swing away from conservative campaign stands. Although the administration's final policy on Southern segregation is still hard to predict, the skirmishes and furor of the last two weeks suggest that Nixon's policy will be a step backwards from Lyndon Johnson's hard-line stand...