Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concern among Americans about the threat of nuclear holocaust. He was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Eileen Chiu, while Brigid O'Hara-Forster and JoAnn Lum worked with Talbott. Presiding over the entire package was National Editor John T. Elson, who was struck by the antinuclear movement's broad base. "The early opposition to the Viet Nam War," he says, "was by political radicals, and only later became a popular movement. Today's antinuclear leaders include Roman Catholic archbishops and Harvard law professors." Adds Elson: "TIME's correspondents turned up local initiatives all over the country...
...Government proposes to send at least $81 million in military aid to an oppressive regime in El Salvador that clearly lacks a broad base of support...
...years ago. The purpose of the blitz was to convince skeptics of the correctness of the Administration's approach to the critical problems of El Salvador and its neighbors-namely, that the struggles in Central America are not simply indigenous revolts but rather are crucial battlegrounds in a broad East-West confrontation...
...commission believes such matters can be settled more easily once a broad commitment to reunion is under way. To that end, the commission calls for the "establishment of a new relationship between our churches," and Pope John Paul and Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie have been asked to appoint a follow-up group to work out the practical steps necessary to produce reunion. One likely form of such a reunion would involve not an absorption of Anglicans into the existing Church of Rome, but a confederation of distinct, spiritually united, sister churches...
...production illustrates the progression perfectly. The first act-all bright colors and gaily spinning contraptions-is an extended divertissement, with Hoffmann the butt of a joke shared by everyone except him. Olympia, the crowning achievement of Spalanzani's workshop, is obviously a machine, and in a fine, broad comic touch, Director Schenk has the inventor's assistant twist each of her fingers to produce the dazzling coloratura of her famous Doll's Song. The mood turns passionate when Hoffmann meets the sensuous Giulietta, and Schneider-Siemssen's Venice creates an atmosphere of dark mystery, with shadowy...