Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Catholic, I am proud and happy that the visit of Pope John Paul II was a success. I am troubled, though. It is relatively easy to condemn materialism, totalitarianism, torture and repression. Political leaders, however, must follow up their words with specific programs. Will John Paul II be more successful than Jimmy Carter in pursuing these goals...
...comforting to know that President Carter has at last adopted the Teddy Roosevelt policy of diplomacy with a big stick, even though it is only a toothpick...
...grand ballroom. He has been working on his address until the last moment, and sometimes he stumbles over the notes in the margins, but he is one of the most effective stump speakers in the country, and his vigorous attack on Jimmy Carter comes through loud and clear. Though he does not mention the President by name, the words leader and leadership keep recurring, 17 times in all. This is Ted Kennedy's main theme, tonight and in the long months ahead. Scoffing at Carter's suggestion that the Government's powers to solve problems are limited, Kennedy sounds...
...white frame house on Squaw Island, about a mile from the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port. He is at Squaw Island almost every weekend during the warm-weather months, and these weekends focus on family and sports. Kennedy loves the outdoors, even though he has dry skin and too much exposure causes it to break out in red blotches. He and Patrick swim before breakfast, then they may go surf casting for an hour. After another hour of tennis at Rose Kennedy's house, Ted visits with his mother, often taking her for a short walk along the beach...
...Though Dirty Linen finds Stoppard in poor form as a thinker, it has its funny moments--when he resists the temptation to use simple bawdy humor and recovers his quirky intellectual muse. In the original London production of the show, the company had a sense of proportion, and carefully understated the strangeness of Stoppard's dialogue to make it sound more believable. Thus the show's introductory sequence--in which two MPs arrive in the committee room and converse for several minutes using only foreign cliches--succeeded through the lack of self-consciousness on the stage...