Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college student today who faces the draft and has any moral qualms about the war is going to have a major psychological hang-up," he said. For this reason, he said, there should be "a whole gamut of responses possible" for the potential draftee. He suggested that young men could "share the burden of the war, but not its purposes" by joining the Peace Corps or Vista "until there is a better war to fight," or by volunteering their services to a U.N. standing army...
There are some good Technicolor Panavision picture postcards of the Sierra Madre country on Mexico's northern plateau. And there is a certain fascination in watching Dean Martin's face run the gamut of unshavenness from shot to shot (for one brief sequence he seems to have a mustache). But the only niche The Sons of Katie Elder will have in cinema history is that it is 58-year-old John Wayne's 165th triumph of Right over Wrong...
PRECIOUS STONES AND OTHER CRYSTALS, text by Rudolf Metz. 191 pages. Viking. $25. Dr. Metz, a mineralogist, has assembled the handsomest collection of minerals, precious, semiprecious and just plain beautiful, to be found anywhere outside a museum. The 89 flaw less color plates run the gamut from gold just as prospectors sometimes find it to the canary-yellow Tiffany diamond, 128.51 carats cut into 90 facets and worth $900,000. Dr. Metz's running comment is on the textbookish side, but no matter. With such cool splendors to survey, who wants to read...
Last week McDivitt and White learned what Young meant, as they orbit ed through a series of tumultuous receptions that ran the gamut of a hero's homecoming - from brass bands to bronze medals to a free trip to Paris. Both took it with weightless ease...
Still, she was trained in the classic tradition of the French theater, with its insistence that the whole gamut of roles, from Molière to Montherlant, be mastered, and that the thousand niceties of acting, from beau geste to rhétorique, become ingrained. She has no patience with actors whose concern exceeds their craft: "Burt Lancaster! Before he can pick up an ashtray, he discusses his motivation for an hour or two. You want to say just pick up the ashtray and shut...