Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writing is spare but flowing, with no set tense. Common nouns are idiomatic; a digs-with-mouth is a badger and a cloud-bird is an eagle. Mahto terms appear regularly, pta for buffalo and itancan for leader. And although the style at first seems ponderous and tedious, it soon becomes soothing. Like the book, it is steady and predictable. Also like the book, however, it is not for everyone...
...movie like this caused such trouble? One reason may be, of course, that it is so stylized. Violence in films and TV has become so common that most audiences are inured to it. Hill's rendering may strike the deeper chords of instinct; the film does set audiences cheering in sympathy for the Warriors' run for freedom...
Prices of 73.5? per gal. for unleaded were common in Miami last week, as were 77.9? per gal. in Atlanta and 78.9? per gal. in Jackson, Miss. Dealers in New Jersey were asking 71.9? per gal. for unleaded, and in New York City 88.9? per gal. for unleaded was posted on at least one pump. In Chicago a gallon of Amoco premium unleaded has been going for 96.9? per gal., up 5? in a month. Says a philosophical Mobil station manager in Manhattan: "Customers get upset, but they pay anyway. They grumble, but what can they...
...United Bible Societies reports that it has legally delivered 12 million Bibles or New Testaments to Eastern Europe since World War II. Many of these were later confiscated, however, or were simply unavailable to common people. TIME'S David Aikman, who has just completed a tour as Eastern Europe bureau chief, reports that a Christian's chances of buying a Bible openly are currently good in Poland, erratic in East Germany, difficult in Czechoslovakia and Hungary (where the purchaser's name may go directly into a government dossier), extremely difficult in Rumania, virtually impossible in the Soviet...
...thing common to most of the research is the conspicuous wariness of the investigators. The utterly elusive ingredients of the mood they are examining force them to turn away from the phenomenon itself. They prefer to tabulate its incidence and parameters. So, even though they maintain their scientific detachment and method in analyzing data, to collect it they have had no convenient choice but to adopt the time-tested techniques of public opinion polling. Subjects are asked merely to declare their degree of happiness, not define it. Even Pollster Louis Harris turns up as an unlikely temporary happyologist, reporting...