Word: swiftness
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Male delegates were sufficiently on guard not to begin a talk to women with such traditional lines as "You lovely ladies" or "What feminine pulchritude." Even the slightest slip of the tongue by the best-meaning male brought swift retribution. At one of the sessions of the Women's Caucus, McGovern was introduced by Liz Carpenter with the compliment: "We are all here because of him." Trying to make a joke, McGovern replied: "The credit should go to Adam." Seeing nothing funny, the women hissed until he pleaded: "Can I recover by saying Adam and Eve?" Shouted an alternate...
...emergence of Senator George McGovern as the Democratic front runner has been so swift that only recently have voters begun to appraise him with any great degree of familiarity. This is reflected by the TIME Citizens Panel, a group of 205 Americans chosen from a scientifically selected cross section of voting-age citizens and interviewed by the attitude-survey firm of Daniel Yankelovich...
...heat and fruitfulness. The August Sea, 1971, one of a series of paintings that relate to his summers on the coast at Provincetown, Mass., is suffused with a literally oceanic peace: the spreading field of blue, Mallarme's azure, the color of space and of openness, dapple with swift strokes of green, with a black line rising through it like the faintly swaying mast of a ship. In such work, Motherwell's address to sensation is marvelously candid. "In a way," he says, "painting is like wine: it is as old, as sim ple, as primitive...
...hundreds of apolitical periodicals like Cat Fancy Magazine, Film Comment, Black Stars, and Turtle and Tortoise Monthly -as well as the mass-circulation magazines. The loss of any publication diminishes civilized tradition and shrivels belief in the power of the written word. It is a notion that Jonathan Swift could have constructed: the Post Office is solvent and the press and the readers are deprived...
...operators or conductors, move along fixed routes under the control of a computer, and do not pollute the air. PRT passengers enter a station, push a call button and are picked up within a few minutes. By pressing an appropriate button aboard the vehicle, they can make a swift nonstop trip to another station of their choice. Says William Magruder, the President's special consultant on technology: "Think of the system as a horizontal elevator...