Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES, started in 1955, has a mailing list of 55,000 and a staff of 36. Its purpose: "to confront athletes and coaches-and through them the youth of the nation -with the challenge and adventure of following Christ." The high point of its easygoing program is a series of week-long summer conferences, which 9,500 athletes, coaches, and their families will attend this year, starting May 27 at Arkansas Tech. The F.C.A. sponsors groups at 1,400 high schools and 215 colleges, and schedules banquets, golf tournaments, and pre-Bowl breakfasts for adults...
...Eyes, shot in a morgue in Pittsburgh, poses a stunning alternative to Hollywood Pavlovian manipulation of audience emotion. Rather than suddenly swell the the musical theme under tragic characters, Brakhage, throughout a thirty-five minute personal interaction with autopsies, permits each viewer of the film to directly confront his own emotions, examine them, understand them. The Myth of Phos continues Brakhage's list of statements about the elements of the film process: light, darkness, projection, grain density, focus, and shadow movement. The Sexual Meditation series also extends established Brakhage pursuits: the tension of suggestion and recognition, the psychological association...
...bring radically varying backgrounds to the program and use Harvard in individualized ways. Most Niemans concur, however, on the basic professional benefits derived from the year-long experience. The year literally stops the presses of their professional lives and allows them to gain distance on a world which they confront daily at close-range...
Until those alternative technologies can fulfill their promise, however, the U.S. must continue to rely on conventional fuels-and to confront the problems that their procurement and use entail. As the environmental movement demonstrated, how fast and effectively the nation faces up to those problems depends largely on public awareness that an energy crisis exists; it was only after the air and waters had become dangerously polluted that the public awoke and demanded the steps that are now gradually beginning to turn the tide of pollution. The U.S. may have even less time to make important decisions about energy. When...
...reference, the town halls and the churches, are flying off in pinwheel motion. Cheever is still writing about all the problems that began to plague suburban literature in the 50s: psychic and spiritual dislocation, the retreat from outward chaos into inward fantasy. Cheever doesn't even try to confront the new social dynamics caused by plastic cities and media zombieism (as another New Yorker John, Mr. Updike, always does...