Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite lengthy absences to serve in government, managed to build it into his nation's most influential paper. A fiscal conservative who staunchly opposed Communism, he was named Finance Minister and Prime Minister by President Manuel Prado in 1959 and during the next two years managed to cut Peru's inflation rate from 11% to 3% and erase the government's budget deficit. Resigning in 1961 after a futile bid for the presidency, Beltran continued editing La Prensa until 1974, when the military government expropriated the paper in retaliation for his critical editorials...
Last week two more oil majors, following the lead of Exxon and Texaco, announced that they were gloomy enough over the continuing world oil shortfall to begin rationing fuel to big customers. Phillips Petroleum and Shell, the nation's largest gasoline seller, have either cut refinery output or reduced dealers' delivery allocations; the cuts range from Shell's maximum of 8% to Phillips' much more drastic 30%. And the reductions could get worse. "After the second quarter, it's anybody's guess what will happen," says an Exxon spokesman...
...around London, the Clash sings straight to-and, in a sense, even speaks for-a generation of working-class kids not only cut off from the social mainstream but disaffected from the smug, cushy sounds of most contemporary pop. Stateside, the audience is different: students, trendy punks, artists and camp followers who cruise the punk periphery like tourists looking to score a season box for the apocalypse. No wonder that, after only the first American date, Joe Strummer was already sounding a little homesick...
...that the group comes from a tradition that uses music not only as an outlet but as a force, an effective instrument of social change. "The record company's making out we're politicians, and that's a load of stuff," sneers Strummer, but Jones may cut a little closer when he recalls the title of his school song, Servants of the State to Be. "It was the high hope that you would become a civil servant," he says. "That was the best you could do. But rock 'n' roll changed the way I look...
Editor Sally Fitzgerald has performed a labor of love and an act of model scholarship. When factual information is needed, she gives it succinctly and then stands back. This record of a remarkable life is an occasion for sadness, a reminder of wisdom cut off much too soon. But the emotion that Flannery O'Connor conveyed most often was joy, and this survives intact. Once a correspondent had suggested that someone would write a life of the author. Flannery pooh-poohed the idea...