Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostile world" professes little alarm at what many view as a world grown even more hostile since Carter took office. He reckons that sharp shifts in U.S. policy must inevitably shake things up for a time. The changes are necessary, he argues, because "an old-world order is coming to an end and the shape of a new world community is yet to be defined." The old order, based largely on military power and nationalism, is giving way to "a technetronic age" in which there will be increasing emphasis on economic development and social justice. The old East-West ideological...
...resonance among New York artists. But then, in the early 1950s, the stream slackened and reversed its course. New York was the center, Paris the province. It was now the turn of the Americans-Rothko and de Kooning, Johns and Rauschenberg, the Pop artists in the '60s-to alarm and stimulate the French. Thus the puritan Yankee paying his awkward homages to Matisse's sensuality was replaced, in the commedia dell'arte, by the French Pop artist in his new-faded denims gazing raptly on the neon of Times Square...
Mesheau said the alarm did not malfunction. He said the system was very sensitive and a small thing such as smoking in a restricted area could...
Mesheau said every alarm system in the University is tested monthly and that maintenance crews clean them at these inspections...
...James Madison '78, I think, who said that "we should take alarm at the first experiment with out liberties." Dean Archie Epps, as the College Administration's heavy hand, has lately been experimenting with considerable heat; and the editors of the "Lampoon" have apparently--and disappointingly--done a rather fast wilt in that atmosphere. As to the chill the Epps decision has cast on their collective sense of humor, that remains to be seen. The entire affair, as a matter of fact, has been characterized by resolute humorlessness on all sides. The Sullen Seventies must truly be upon...