Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bolt's scenario preserves the prinking wit and rolling eloquence of the play, but the plot has been smoothed and straightened in its passage through the projector. What comes out is a swift and vivid story. Henry VIII (Robert Shaw), having decided to put away a Queen "as barren as a brick," names Sir Thomas (Paul Scofield) as Lord
Today's youths, said Dr. Greenson, lave been spoiled; they have grown up accustomed to swift satisfactions with a relative absence of frustration. "The great lovers in real life and in literature," he noted, "were willing to suffer great misery and pain for their loved ones-to wait, to struggle and to endure, all of which went to make the loved one more precious. The 'cool' set is used to quick and easy gratifications, Instant warmth and instant sex make puny love, cool sex, and a turning...
Barbados, for all that, is no little England. Fully a seventh of the island is sinking as a result of swift underground currents, and it will take an estimated $40 million to correct the situation. The island's 250,000 population makes it the third most densely populated area in the Commonwealth, after Hong Kong and Malta. The density is easing only where it can least be afforded: the cream of Bajan youth is emigrating to the better opportunities in the U.S., Canada or Britain. Though the economy is viable, its heavy dependence on sugar, which provides...
Also Sally S. Seaver, of Moors Hall and Fayetteville, N.Y. (Chemistry); Ethel M. Silverman, of Comstock Hall and Clifton, N.J. (Biology); Elizabeth K. Smith, of Coggeshall House and Lorain, Ohio (Economics); Anita E. Spertus, of Jordan W and Glencoe, III. (Near Eastern Languages); Eleanor B. Swift, of Whitman Hall and Chicago (History); and Nancy L. Uhlar, of Wolbach Hall and Valley Stream, N.Y. (History and Literature...
...CHAMADE, by Francoise Sagan. Another swift vignette of autumnal love in Paris, turned out with crisp economy by a Gallic miniaturist...