Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked more like a reject from the cast of Oliver! than the star of Sweet Charity, but Shirley MacLaine insisted that "there is more to life than worrying about clothes." In London briefly to promote Charity, Shirley offered a few more upbeat views that roundly belied her traditional image as Hollywood's wispy, well-meaning waif. On politics: "Politics is not relevant to me any more. What matters is social revolution in the West." On pot: "I smoke pot, but I'm not addicted to it. I'm not addicted to anything except being alive...
Mutuality. For all the upbeat motions elsewhere, Richard Nixon's central foreign policy concern remained the swift extrication of the U.S. from Viet Nam on honorable terms. As the Paris negotiations limp on with no settlement in sight, Nixon's thinking has focused increasingly on scaling down the American presence in Viet Nam. Even a limited withdrawal could ease domestic political pressure, perhaps reduce casualties and serve as a peace initiative. But how to take the first step safely...
...country-western twanginess and Dionne Warwick inflection, sings about "Knowing When to Leave" a lover, music and rhythm change as the character's thoughts move form a detached statement of principle ("Knowing when to leave won't ever let you reach the point of no return/ Fly") to an upbeat assertion of hope ("Foolish as it seems/ I still have my dreams") to an angry stream of abuse ("Keep your eyes on the door/ Never let it get out of sight/ Just be prepared when the time has come/ For you to run away...
After a disappointing 1967-68 season, the staff of the Public Broadcasting Laboratory was naturally let down. Then last month PBL, the Ford Foundation's $12.5 million experiment in public-interest television, began its second year on an encouragingly upbeat note (TIME, Dec. 6). Birth and Death, PBL's cinéma vérité documentary on natural childbirth and death by cancer, won critical acclaim, and the staff was jubilant. Said Executive Director Av (Avram) Westin: "This year we go for broke...
...Ireland; Book VI is a leave-taking of America, and it starts with the leave-taking of a friend -- the ten elegies on Delmore Schwartz; Book V seems to center on a stay in the hospital; Book IV is mysteriously entitled "Opus Posthumous." Each book ends on an upbeat...