Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Giant Step. Nixon's message, of which Kissinger is the principal author, defines global objectives for the coming decade. Further, it treats the subject as a whole instead of a collection of separate problems. And it does so in a cool tone that allows realism to outweigh verbal flourishes. Nixon emphasizes not isolation, but rather more credible involvement. Thus he takes a qualified step back from the doctrine of almost automatic intervention in hemispheric affairs that drew the Johnson Administration into the Dominican Republic, a giant step from John Kennedy's rhetorical commitment to intervene anywhere in defense...
...knew that countless other investigators had failed to persuade Hansen's bacillus, the microbe that causes leprosy, to grow in lab animals-a vital step in virtually all infectious-disease research. At the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Shepard reasoned that perhaps the bacilli needed a cool environment like that in the foot pads of mice. Shepard injected bacilli into the pads, and after he had waited patiently for months, they multiplied...
Died. Major General George Gelston, 57, commander of the Maryland National Guard troops during the 1963 and 1964 racial upheavals in Cambridge, whose cool, intelligent leadership prevented almost certain bloodshed; of heart disease; in Chicago. Gelston saw his choices as three: "You can club 'em to death, you can arrest 'em, or you can let them demonstrate-controlled and protected-and hope eventually for a peaceful situation." He chose the last course, and eventually arranged the truce that allowed him to withdraw his troops...
...their honor and their courage aganist one another in a dangerous automobile contest destined to take from one of them either his life or the respect of his friends. As they survey the course they will be driving, they glare at each other, their fears walled up inside the cool they try to maintain. A moment before the trial begins, however, they face one another, exchange names. "I like you," admits the leader of the pack. "I like you, too." says Dean, and asks him, "Why are we doing this?" There comes a shrug from the leader. His eyes relent...
...Antonioni cuts to an oversize billboard advertising sandwich bread. Los Angeles, used as a metaphor for America, is portrayed largely in visual cliches: billboards, TV commercials, neon lights, gun stores, crowded freeways, shabby neighborhoods. The brief footage of riot and bloodshed seems child's play compared with Medium Cool, and the musical score-made up mostly of contemporary rock tunes-is so uncertainly used as to appear superimposed. The two newcomers who play the leading roles are, like the film itself, pretty but empty. To be sure, there are lots of beautiful shots of the desert...