Word: callings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from abroad visited New York City last year, an increase of 8% over 1977. Says a manager at the chic Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where foreign guests have risen from 10% of the clientele ten years ago to close to 25% now: "We are getting so many Australians that I call one hallway my Australia...
More and more black leaders say that their interests coincide with those of business on energy legislation, Government regulation, environmental controls and numerous other issues. The nation should not necessarily alter its policies just because members of these two groups call for change, but the jointly held views of blacks and businessmen make sense on many matters...
...same idea is echoed forcefully by Bayard Rustin, the civil rights veteran, who condemns the "self-righteous, elitist neo-Malthusians who call for slow growth or no growth. The policies of these elitists would condemn the black underclass, the slum proletariat and rural blacks, to permanent poverty." Rustin contends that the curtailment of construction projects, factory expansions and farm ventures for environmental reasons already has cost many potential jobs for blacks. The only way that unemployed blacks can join the work force in a significant way, he argues, is for the economy to grow vigorously...
Safire has learned to combine reporting with denouncing, and rarely writes thumb-suckers, which is what columnists call reflective pieces. A classic example appears in the Jan. 13 New Republic, written by Henry Fairlie. a transplanted Englishman who often combines good sense and fatuity. On the dubious premise that trends can be divided patly into decades, Fairlie proclaims that this is a Decade of No Survivors, meaning that no institution came out of the '60s intact. After gloomily surveying the current cultural barrenness, he speaks of the Decade with No Audience and concludes even more gloomily with the Decade...
...solo instrument and featured contorted harmonies and quick-changing rhythms with sudden breaks and howls. Of burly build and mercurial temper, the bearded Mingus sometimes grew violent onstage when faced by inattentive audiences and became increasingly angered over treatment of blacks in the U.S., especially musicians. "Don't call me a jazz musician," he once complained. "The word jazz means nigger, discrimination, second-class citizenship, the back-of-the-bus bit!" Too crippled by disease to perform during his final year, Mingus nevertheless composed the music for an album by Joni Mitchell...