Word: swiftness
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...their effort to get Negroes registered. In those states, says the Government, local courts have simply kept Negroes off the voting rolls on the ground that the new federal law is an unconstitutional infringement on state power to regulate-elections. To end this "grave frustration," the Government seeks a swift Supreme Court decision- hopefully before the South's coming spring primaries. Before that happens, the court must accept the case...
Legislation allowing Massachusetts to donate a large chunk of the Bennett Street transit yards for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library began a swift and facile journey through the Great and General Court yesterday...
...trouble is that Playwright Orton did not set out to write a comedy of manners but a Stygian comedy of morals. Dipping his brush in the bile of Swift, he has managed to paint only an urban pastiche of Tobacco Road...
...Pawnbroker) nails the action of this spiky British drama into so taut a frame that an audience can feel every jab in the belly, taste every mouthful of dust. It is less easy to hear the dialogue, much of it delivered in accents too angry or authentic for swift comprehension. Yet the lines thrown away are scarcely missed because Lumet crowds the screen with strong, spare imagery built around the fearful mound. After a ghastly ordeal on the hill, filmed from the sweaty side of a gas mask, one prisoner dies, hounded to his doom by a sadistic guard. Subsequently...
...when the patient was wheeled into the operating suite. A team of ten masked, green-gowned doctors made final preparations. By 6:50 a.m., the patient was asleep under general anesthesia. Ten minutes later, the chief surgeon murmured "scalpel?" and the operation was under way. There was a swift, sure incision, then a slow, deliberate excision. By 9:15 a.m., the last suture was in place, the operation complete. "It's wonderful," breathed one of the doctors, "just wonderful...