Word: done
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pain." As Mario Vizcaino, director of the city's Cuban National Planning Council, puts it: "Ten years ago, to become an American citizen was almost an act of betrayal. Now there is a growing awareness of voting power, that the voting booth is the place to get things done." Coupled with that attitude is a developing feeling that perhaps the U.S. is, after all, the Promised Land-a feeling that 132 other Cubans were allowed to share recently, when the Castro regime, in a small bid to thaw chilly relations with the U.S., gave them permission to emigrate...
...truck, has opened the first Hispanic off-Broadway theater in a recycled West Side firehouse and will offer plays in both English and Spanish. On the Lower East Side, the New Rican Village cultural center lures actors and dancers and poets. So whatever else the New York experience has done to Puerto Ricans, it has not stifled the creative impulse...
...January between the U.S. and Japan and whirlwind tours of businessmen are no way to solve the critical imbalances in world trade caused by Japan's insatiable urge to export and parsimonious reluctance to import. In fact, such cosmetic exercises only give the illusion that something is being done and delay the looming showdown when Japan is finally forced to realize that it cannot indefinitely disrupt the balance of trade in the world without itself suffering the consequences of the disorders that are bound to follow...
...once fragile and isolated-looking works of Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, Gorky and their peers became the emblems of a cultural empire: no style or movement since surrealism was diffused so fast, or imposed itself as completely on painters around the world. But the earlier work of these artists, done before, during and just after World War II, is still patchily known. Last week the first thorough retrospective of it, "Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years," went on view at New York City's Whitney Museum: an altogether fascinating show of 120 paintings by 15 artists, assembled by Art Historians...
...more or less than to get this sense of mystery down. At the end of one story, he wonders how mere fiction could "hope to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream." As consistently as any of his contemporaries, Cheever has done just that...