Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highlight of the visit was an evening of entertainment in the pavilion. As a lively band beat out a variety of tunes, from rock to disco to jazz, the colonists burst into song, including a rousing chorus of America the Beautiful. Even the skeptical Ryan was impressed. He rose to tell his assembled hosts: "From what I've seen, there are a lot of people here who think this is the best thing that has happened in their whole lives." The audience applauded loudly. Jones stood up and led the clapping...
...Problem is that the label "offensive" is too easily applied. There is an enormous number of subjects--whether social theories, political views or religious beliefs, anything from Darwinism to disco--that could be branded "offensive" at any given time. For The Crimson to set itself up as an arbiter of taste, to impose our own standards of offensiveness on readers who are at least as intelligent and capable of choosing as we, is more than presumptuous. It also carries with it the seeds of capriciousness, the danger of unreasonably restraining the open discussion that it is our role to promote...
Then, of course, there's disco, a natural extension of Tintti's love for jazz dancing and ballet. But dancing is one of the luxuries that has to take a backseat to off-ice jogging and exercising, activities she says American skaters don't do enough...
...understand not just what had happened but exactly why. What emerged from this post-mortem on the 1978 elections was a vision of American politics in which large numbers of people sat by like wallflowers in a dance hall while small groups of voters performed an erratic sort of disco dance...
...leadership in both houses now looks forward with dread to the 96th Congress, which is likely to be even more unmanageable than its predecessor, the 95th. The new members, like the electorate that chose them, will be hearing the disco beat and doing their own thing...