Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, the panel, under California law, had to decide on Sirhan's punishment. The defense and prosecution made brief pleas, after which the jury spent eleven hours and 45 minutes deciding Sirhan's fate. "I know he premeditated the murder with malice," said Broomis, "but I still thought the death penalty was too harsh." Four formal ballots were taken, but life imprisonment never received more than three votes. Finally, unanimity was achieved. George A. Stitzel, a pressroom foreman for the Los Angeles Times, reported later: "One item that was very important was the idea that we should stand...
...seems strangely unaffected by both the warm abrazos of old friends who had thought him dead, and by the shiny new skyscrapers of Málaga, the neon lights and the blaring sock-it-to-'em jukeboxes. What he likes best of all is to slip off the uncomfortable shoes as he takes the sun in the tiny inner patio prohibited to him for so many years. Sitting there, at peace with himself and the world, Cortés says: "At last, for me, the war is over...
...flap came with the space agency's announcement last week that Public Affairs Officer Paul Haney, the calm, canorous "Voice of Apollo," has been ordered to a lesser post in Washington after six years at Houston's Manned Spaceflight Center. The word was that some NASA officials thought that he had become too impressed with himself. Haney, who wanted to be on hand for the first lunar landing, was outraged: "This is like being kicked out of the game on the two-yard line after coming 98 yards down the field." With that, Haney sidelined himself by resigning...
...life. The resulting mixture of guilt and gratitude marked Toynbee deeply. "I have always felt it strange to be alive myself," he writes, "and the longer I have gone on living since then, the stranger this has come to feel. Death seems normal to me; survival seems odd." The thought recurs in Experiences like the tolling of a bell...
Released in this country last year, Pierrot was made in 1965. This is very important because it should be thought of in the context of his earlier films (Breathless, A woman is a Woman, Contempt), which deal with the more traditional themes of the New Wave movement: man's alienation from his past and future, from his immediate environment and the world around him, and from woman and himself...