Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article on the Crescent of Crisis [Jan. 15] you quote Zbigniew Brzezinski as saying, "I'd have to be blind or Pollyannish not to recognize that there are dark clouds on the horizon." On the horizon." It is clear that those clouds are already formed-right over our heads. To say otherwise is at best Pollyannish, and at worst irresponsibly myopic...
...listeners that he had a sensible long-range strategy for dealing with both. With a view toward the politics of 1980, he hoped to come across as the cool, realistic leader. His delivery in a packed hall of the House of Representatives matched his message. Dressed in sober dark blue, standing so straight that his back almost arched, he spoke more haltingly than usual because he had the beginnings of a cold. There were the customary odd pauses and the staccato delivery. The applause was tepid, and when Carter proposed a slogan for his Administration, the New Foundation...
Teng was clad in his usual dark gray Mao suit with black shoes and light gray socks. Puffing incessantly on Chinese-made Panda filter cigarettes, he spoke animatedly, gesticulating with his right hand and at times banging his hands together sharply to stress a point...
Only once does the BSC seize the play's dark side and expose it to the audience. As Pompey the whoremaster (Mark Cartier) gives the audience a tour of the riff-raff in the prison, he opens trapdoors in the stage floor which serve as cell doors--and long arms reach out, grabbing for him, trying to drag him down. It's a good bit of stage business, and it's also an eerie picture of the starved world of Measure for Measure, sucking its inhabitants into the abyss...
...never heard of Lyndon H. Larouche, but the guys that stand by Holyoke Center giving away his party's newspaper assured me that Larouche was right for America in 1980. It seems that a lot of the other candidates are part of a conspiracy to usher in the New Dark Ages, by collectivist government, the spreading of drugs, the hidden murderous plots of the national health insurance movement. His paper is put out by the U.S. Labor Party, but in many ways it is indistinguishable from any paper of the other lunatic fringe, the dreaded Right Wing...