Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every piece in the Fall issue lacks a sense of life or relevancy which only vivid language can convey--strong verbs and taut imagery are prominently absent. The Advocate too often wallows in flat prose and free poetry, modes that were once, long ago, refreshing but are now, in less expert hands, stale and tired. In this issue, flat means not spare but listless, even flabby, and free means not spontaneous and natural but formless, thoughtless, and overly moody...
Neither he nor the Department of National Monuments, however, quite had the nerve to destroy Painter Lenepveu's original ceiling. It remains a few inches above Chagall's ceiling, which is made of polyester gores slung like taut sails within the giant gilt rotunda...
proved far more concerned about TVA and social security than the race issue, voted for L.B.J. He even carried Gary, Ind., where racial tensions were taut and Alabama's Governor George Wallace had scored heavily in a presidential primary. The Johnson landslide also destroyed Republican theories that there might be a large "silent vote" cast by conservatives who had not voted regularly before and who did not want to tell pollsters they planned to vote for Barry. Nor did large numbers of voters pass up the presidential race out of apathy or coolness toward both candidates. The presidential vote...
...years since Sartre wrote his taut and masterful early dramas, his works have become increasingly lengthy, turgid, posturing and difficult. The climax was perhaps Saint Genet, where he tortured a simple preface to another man's work into a labored and debatable treatise of 578 pages-three-quarters the length of the volumes he was introducing. But in his autobiography, Sartre simplifies and shortens. The writing is austere, crisp, even epigrammatic. The result is a warm, albeit desperately sad, account of his childhood and early teens. And far more than most autobiographies, this is an inward-turning book, cutting...
...hole comes along you can go through like gangbusters." A really big break is obviously what Barry Goldwater badly needs if he is to become President. And in Washington a team of tough tacticians, personally hand-picked by Barry to run the Republican National Committee, has developed a taut organization far better prepared to capitalize on the breaks than any G.O.P. team since the one that rushed Dwight Eisenhower into the presidency in 1952. "We're ready," says National Chairman Dean Burch...