Word: abyssal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students who might end up there are the 20 per cent of the Harvard class Riesman lumps together when he breaks the class down into three broad parts. In group number three are the utterly mixed-up graduates, "the people who fall into the abyss when they graduate." Some of them, in grasping at straws, opt for the "post-baccalaureate baccalaureate," a law degree, while others heedlessly try to make it in the demanding fields of scholarship or the creative arts. "This group does take off," he says, "and often they have insufficient skills to stay off the Howard Johnson...
...seen so many cliffhangers that I don't get acrophobia when I look over a cliff," quipped New York Governor Hugh Carey last week. Once again he was peering into the abyss of default. The helping hand he had expected from Gerald Ford had not been extended. In a statement only a little less tart than in the past, Ford said that if more "progress" was made, he would "review" New York's situation this week and consider some kind of relief. What he appears to want is a comprehensive plan to restore fiscal stability to the city...
...long and tortuous "Abyss of the Birds" movement. Kass showed clearly that he is the best clarinetist around. He tossed off the violent and jagged melodic lines with ease. Breathtakingly soft attacks in the highest register were followed by harrowing crescendoes without the slightest wavering in pitch. Wolff, although he had no comparable solo, sensitively handled the shifting harmonies, providing the quartet with a sure base for their soaring and sometimes frantically demonic melodies. The piece is full of fast unison passages for the strings which would glaringly expose any inconsistency in rhythm or pitch. Chang and Hogan played best...
...trumped-up charge that she had made love to a white man in a rest room at Paris' Orly Airport. Last week Amin ordered Uganda's newspapers to publish an old photograph of her in the nude to prove, Amin said, that "she has plunged into an abyss of immorality." A fortnight ago, Finance Minister Emmanuel Wakhweya fled to London, explaining: "To live in Uganda today is hell...
What do "those clever Japanese" industrialists and Japanese writers' numbers games have to do with Kobo Abe? Everything (and of course, on the edge of the technological abyss, nothing). Abe is a Nikon camera incarnate, and his transistorized prose--a mixture of journalese and clinical report--combines some of the worst elements of the simple Hesse, the technical Barth, the mundane Beckett, and the grotesque-for-the-sake-of-grotesqueness Barthelme. He is as throughly modern as Japan's prodigal-car, the high on fuel consumption and low on credit...