Word: swiftness
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From Washington, State Department reaction to the deal was swift and damning: to propose trading Cardinal Mindszenty for U.S. reconciliation with the Kadar regime or for dropping the Hungarian question from the U.N. agenda is simply a form of blackmail...
...cronies who are widely believed to be lining their pockets at government expense; the basing of army promotions on merit rather than on personal loyalty to Diem; the creation of a centralized intelligence agency instead of the present plethora of police, army and administrative systems, whose rivalry prevents swift movement against the elusive Red guerrillas; a widespread implementation of land reform to win back the invaluable support of the Vietnamese peasants, who are now either pro-Communist or indifferent to both sides...
...wedded to novel length writing, and his 80-pagem parody grows into a tiresome, nasty, repetitive 352-page expose. for Mr. Wilson has little else to say in his extra 272-pages. That Carter is immoral is abundantly evident in the first chapter; that his world is doomed to swift collapse is equally apparent. And yet Mr. Wilson feels compelled to narrate the events that reveal Carter as a bounder, and that bring about the final disintegration of all the bloated, macabre Curators...
...This sentimental cliche seemed to deaden the vivacious choruses from The Beggar's Opera, and seemed to some degree to underlay almost all the folksongs. Davison's arrangement did avoid it by its striking chords and elaborate voicing, and Fukunata's Barcarolle of Koshiki Isle escaped it through a swift melodic dive repeated throughout...
Penrod & Sammy. Morse's own swift rise on Broadway has not always been so endearing. He was so irritatingly erratic during the road trials of his first play. 1953's The Matchmaker, that the rest of the nervous cast was ready to sign a petition to have him dropped; but he eventually scored a personal triumph, peeping out from under a table shouting, "We're all terribly innocent," and he was the only member of the Broadway cast who was signed to appear in the film version. During the pre-Broadway run of his next play...