Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little but go through their plot-serving paces, though someone should have kept Theodore Sorel from going way out of vocal control in Alonso's "billows" speech. As old Gonzalo (a weak retread of Polonius in Hamlet), Daniel Benzali gets an unintended laugh from today's fuel-conscious audience when he outlines his ideal commonwealth as having "no use of...oil." And it is a nice touch, at the end of the play, for him to bow to Caliban with a kindly smile...
Public reaction also seemed favorable. Carter proposed having the Energy Security Corp. issue $5 billion in bonds to the public to help finance synfuel development. In one of those bits of self-conscious flag-waving that nonetheless may illustrate the popular mood, the city council of Ga. (pop. 200), Ga., voted to invest half the town's accumulated savings of $20,000 in those bonds...
...groups that have played before Marley were heavy on the consciousness raising: talk of our brothers in Africa, talk of unity which is beyond race, talk of the end of opression. Marley talked little, sang much. Marley holds his hand to his head when he sings; he occasionally points to the friend or the opressor he sees in his mind. He is conscious of the crowd in an indirect way, his music and not his eyes communicate with them...
...letter of the 1964 law, but insisted that they were not within its spirit. The primary concern of Congress was with "the plight of the Negro in our economy," Brennan wrote. It would be "ironic indeed," he said, if Title VII was used to prohibit "all voluntary, private, race-conscious efforts to abolish traditional patterns" of discrimination...
Euell Gibbons chows down at Conscious Cookery behind Coolidge Bank, where the Sikhs serve up wholesome health food on the You-Can't-Fool-Mother-Nature principle. Especially good are the avocado and alfalfa sprouts sandwich, and the generous salads. In the same area, Sails serves tuna with good taste Charlie. At Grendel's next door, Hrothgar isn't welcome, but Beowulf comes anyway, for the chocolate fondue and salad...