Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call has gone out for correct bookkeeping. During the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, said the People's Daily, leaders were interested only in "political accounts, not economic accounts. As a result, accounting work was greatly weakened and financial management was very confused...
Modern liberal theologians have forgotten the problem of evil," says University of Chicago Philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Is that true, even in the aftermath of a horror like Jonestown? Remarks Yale Divinity School's Barbara Hargrove, "in other ages, what happened to Jim Jones would have been referred to very clearly as coming under the influence of evil forces-'the devil got in him.' But I haven't heard any people using that kind of language...
...aftermath of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, in which South African police murdered 67 unarmed blacks, Engelhard organized the American bank loans which salvaged the South African economy. He personally owned 23 South African corporations (see Africa Today and Forbes). Engelhard served as an administrator of the migrant labor system which brutally separates black families. He was the only foreigner ever top sit on the boards of the Witwatersrand Native Labor Association and the Native Recruiting Agency, two government agencies which recruit cheap African labor to work in the mines (see Ruth First, The South African Connection...
...movie follows its robber heroes from their early years as clumsy stickup men through their big score and its legal aftermath. There are some giddy set pieces, most notably a gummed-up bubble gum factory robbery, but it is the intimate moments and throwaway wisecracks that pay off best. This is due in no small part to Friedkin's cast, which is full of idiosyncratic comic actors who delight in playing amiable lowlife slobs...
...that could alienate nearly 1000 people so completely that they would follow a madman to their graves. Something is lacking, something America either could not supply or those unfortunates were incapable of receiving. In addition to this perceived societal lapse, there is the uncomfortable confluence at Jonestown and its aftermath of several things that typify the culture, or lack thereof, of America...