Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent-all of those are time-honored characteristics. But hawklike vision is what is most valued in a group of 30 Explorer Scouts in Los Angeles. For a month, the Scouts-both boys and girls-have been working with the Hollywood division of the L.A. police as auxiliary crime spotters. One night a week groups of the uniformed Scouts, armed with binoculars and a walkie-talkie, perch on high buildings to watch the streets for suspicious activity. So far, calls from the 16-to 18-year-olds to cruising...
...military uses of their swords as a distraction, even as an embarrassment. The annals of samurai conduct are filled with prodigies of sword wielding: as recently as the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, for instance, a Japanese officer charged a Russian machine gun, so the story goes, and cut clean through its barrel and water jacket with one swipe of his tachi. But the art swords in this show were not meant for such ends. Their unblemished state testifies that they can rarely, if ever, have seen battle. Kept in a Shinto shrine or an armory, polished no more often...
...horn as often and as loud as Walker has, people start expecting a knight in shining armor." Walker indicated he would cut the state budget; instead, it increased from $7.6 billion when he took office in 1973 to a projected $9.9 billion for fiscal 1977. He pledged an immaculately clean government, but a huge Medicaid scandal has shaken his administration (TIME, Feb. 23). He said he would end patronage abuses, yet he has put many of his supporters on the public payroll...
...movement." This is not necessarily a dishonorable exercise, although sometimes it is a little too easy, like hunting from a helicopter. But there is a danger in it. A repugnance for the Yippie idiocies of the '60s can too often turn into a backlash against such concerns as clean air, equal rights and the lessening of poverty. Beneath the current indignation about Big Government there can lurk a regressive social meanness...
...Clean Slate...