Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sensational as it was, the Kim-Choi scandal had to share the headlines with another story. After his swift coup in May 1961, General Park Chung Hee pledged that his 32-man junta would go back to the barracks "when all revolutionary tasks have been accomplished." The strongman, who so far has done an impressive job of ridding South Korea of corruption and creating a measure of economic stability, last week published a draft constitution that will restore civilian rule by next summer. But when Park goes back to the barracks, it will be merely to change into civvies...
Open Intercom. That fairly well symbolized the trouble with NBC this year. The network's "Dewline" tabulation-a system that stationed NBC stringers in hundreds of voting districts-was swift and often ahead of the competition. At 7:35 p.m., for instance, NBC had 25% of the Connecticut senatorial vote, while CBS had only 15% and ABC 8%. But the commentary of NBC's public-affairs stars, from Huntley and Brinkley to Merrill Mueller, Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur, John Chancellor et al., lacked yeast. Brinkley may have had something when he said that the computer was likely...
After the Crimson's feeble performance against Dartmouth two weeks ago, it seemed the varsity's best defense against the swift Princeton backfield would surely be prayer. But John Yovicsin's outfit turned in its top performance of the year in routing Penn, 36-0, last weak in the rain and the cold. And the talk this week where the faithful gather has been cautiously optimistic...
That most versatile writer, Jonathan Swift, almost conspicuously avoided the drama. Yet Carter Wilson '63 has put the experimental theatre to excellent use in developing Swift's painful definition of felicity: "the possession of being well deceived. The state of being a fool among knaves...
There is a danger in writing about the pseudoinsane, and it is the danger of trickery. I do not think Carter Wilson captures the spirit of Swift in suggesting private retreat. But Wilson is entitled to his philosophical foray, after all, and in a cleverly blocked final scene he shows the Dean's actions for what they are: a stab at desperate alternative. And it stands very much to Wilson's credit that he fuses philosophy and personality in each character with such steady craft...