Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seen one, seen 'em all, say cynics. For all their huge popularity and moneymaking capacity, the soaps are something of a mystery hit. For the uninitiated, there is only one word that really describes them: weird. To watch a soap is to be drawn into an enclosed and not particularly welcoming world...
...Arche (the Ark) communities, in which the normal and retarded share a common life, have opened on four continents. Vanier describes the homes as places of "human and spiritual progress," where the retarded gain in hope and confidence while the more fortunate who come in contact with them are drawn toward a life of simplicity and self-giving...
...rhetoric was familiar. "We don't like the word strike," said Max Arons, president of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. "We prefer to say 'withdraw our services.' " However one cared to put it, the lines were drawn last week for a possibly fateful labor struggle at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Since he was appointed executive director a year ago, Anthony A. Bliss, 62, has been negotiating with the 14 artistic and craft unions at the Met over new contracts. All have been performing since the summer under contract extensions that expire...
With women, the increases have been more dramatic but fall shorter of reflecting the population. The pools of available women for all positions are substantial and should, again through a vigorous recruiting effort, be drawn on far more fully than they...
...also essential to his work. For one thing, he finds it impossible to invent an entirely original story, something drawn out of his own experience or fantasy life. Indeed, the creation of fiction awes him. "It is one of the most phenomenal human achievements," he says. "And I have never done it." Instead, he must do "detective work - find out about the things about which I have no direct experience." These, of course, offer metaphors in which to cloak such observations - they are never direct mes sages - that he cares to share with the world...