Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result is some of the most wildly creative dancing ever seen by modern or primitive man. In a discotheque, where the sound is so loud that conversation is impossible, the hypnotic beat works a strange magic. Many dancers become literally transported. They drift away from their partners; inhibitions flake away, eyes glaze over, until suddenly they are seemingly swimming alone in a sea of sound. Says Sheila Wilson, 18, a student at Vassar: "I give everything that is in me. And when I get going, I'm gone. It's the only time I feel whole...
...working conditions, long hours and low pay, seems no longer relevant to Wilson. As the battle against exploitation has diminished, Wilson sees a more appropriate role for socialism in the application of technology and modern management to industry in order to rid it of muddle, disorganization and drift...
...rule is to go around the country making speeches-preferably "nonpolitical" and therefore noncontroversial. Since Jan. 1, Romney has had seven such engagements, including two Lincoln Day addresses. The subject: "moral principles." For example, he told a newspaper association meeting that "our drift away from principle, too often encouraged by the recurring examples of opportunism and expediency in high office, has produced corrosive contradictions within our national life that can destroy our free institutions...
...m.p.h. before he gets within 25 ft. of the ship, and the strain on his tether will rise to many tons. Assorted and intricate schemes have been suggested for the avoidance of this dangerous difficulty. But the day may come when an astronaut will break his tether and drift off into endless space because a comrade has reeled him in too fast...
...meaning comes out by itself." With her maquilleuse, Simone Knapp, she studies her script for makeup, hairdos and costume changes; the two of them have worked together so long that they can plan a whole film in 45 minutes. Then she reads over her lines to get the drift of things and puts her script aside until the shooting starts. The wait invariably makes her nervous. "When I was young," she says, "I was always sure of everything I did. I was sure the audience would love me, and I had to be dragged away from a stage...