Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helped ventilate British complacency and restore some of the dynamics that had gone out of the welfare state. A later wave of novelists and starkly realistic films bitterly mocked the opportunism and intellectual dishonesty of society as they saw it. Last year, for the first time since Pope and Swift peppered the 18th century Establishment with choleric wit, no-holds-barred political satire found a big, avid audience in theaters, nightclubs and newspaper columns. Even on BBC television, a longtime stronghold of genteel conformity, bright young men fresh from the universities outrageously lampoon such sacred cows as the Church...
...tape is fed to a computer, which sucks it up at inhuman speed, measuring the width of letters and counting the spaces in a swift stream of words. When it gets near the end of a line, it does what a human typesetter would do, adding spaces if necessary to fill out the line. When it comes to a word that has to be hyphenated, which happens about every five lines, it hesitates momentarily while it consults a quick-access memory. If the word has a recognizable prefix or a familiar ending, such as -ing or -tion, the memory tells...
...after-"mood and wonder." Knaths never goes in for dramatics. His colors are muted, do not dazzle. He can catch the orange glory of dawn, but he is not interested in the glare of high noon. He suggests the movement inherent in even the still life, but shuns swift outward action. Rather than a storm at sea, he prefers to paint the glistening emptiness of the time when the tide has run out. There is activity in a Knaths painting, but it is contained in a marvelous calm: mood and movement flow, one from the other, as in a slow...
...happiest and perhaps least surprised by Ed Rawlings' swift transition from military to civilian business is Chairman Bell. Says he: "I've known and respected Ed for such a long period of time that nothing he does surprises me. This is what I hoped and believed would show...
...argued for 1¼ in. The Marines insisted upon 2⅜ in.-and at that the Navy balked. Only the Army seemed agreeable to any specification. The services met, disagreed, kicked the question upstairs to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Infuriated, McNamara ignored the services, resolved the issue with a swift decision of his own: officers' shirt collars must be ½ in. high...