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...meeting was very chaotic," Miss Balgley said. "Many people got frustrated and left. I don't think it did that much for the movement...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: National Meeting Reaffirms Strike | 5/19/1970 | See Source »

...Shakespeare's play and its bewildering flux between serious and fantastic themes, director Seltzer's first task was to condense and unify the action. The whole production ultimately flounders because he and his actors cannot fabricate a larger coherency out of this diffuse material. The net result is chaotic, although somewhere in all the dense overflow of rich color and sentiment, there were elements of genuine merit...

Author: By James M. Lewis., | Title: The Playgoer The Winter's Tale | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...disrupt the system. In practice, however, things might not prove to be quite so simple. As the measure (which, if approved, would still have to be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures) passes to the Senate floor, opponents are arguing that it might well be even more chaotic and dissatisfying than the Electoral College system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: HOW NOT TO ELECT A PRESIDENT | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...mailman compared the postal strike to a volcano. In its sudden fury, the stoppage that began last week was indeed cataclysmic, but labor trouble has been only one of the latent threats to the mail service. The Post Office Department has long suffered from deteriorating facilities, a chaotic financing method and archaic approaches to both moving mail and administering the organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Enduring Mail Mess | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...Israel with loyalty to the U.S. Obviously he rejects the Zionist formulation once put forward by David Ben-Gurion that "whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have no God." He can buttress his passion with reason. Israel is a democratic, modern, stabilizing force in a chaotic and brutally backward corner of the world. The Israelis have created a nation and made the desert bloom, thereby more than earning their right to national existence. Israel needs U.S. support to survive, and if Israel were some day to fall, U.S. interests would suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Is There a Jewish Foreign Policy? | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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