Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the usual colonial tensions and pretensions: Hoxworth feuds with a polyglut of races while his pineapple princess (Geraldine Chaplin) goes quietly mad. Every time the pace slackens, which is often, someone goes to sea, either to pick up field hands or to transport lepers to Molokai. The incessant ebb and flow is intended as a metaphor for the turbulent tides of Hawaiian life. But the real metaphor here is the pineapple, which in the good old gangster days was a synonym for bomb...
Fading Glitter. Another important factor in Wilson's decision to call elections may well have been that current economic cheeriness may ebb by fall, particularly if Wall Street continues to behave so badly. Inevitably, price increases will follow those glittering wage hikes. April cost-of-living figures, released last week, showed a 2% rise, sharpest for any month in two years. Retail price increases this year will run about 7%. Unemployment, at 2.5% as of last week, is the highest for any May since 1940. In addition, there was the prospect that renewed troubles this summer in Northern Ireland...
...anxiety. Chekhov writes of the misery of overwrought people struggling to maintain self-control against unhappiness they do not understand. Both writers see themselves subject to the same errors and anxieties. Johsnon, despite his reputation as a prodigious moralist, majestically ordering life with indefatigable lucidity through the irresistible ebb and flow of his periodic prose, as profoundly melancholy man with a resilient and charitable sense of humor much like Chekhov's. Johnson believed that the miseries of disappointment would always exceed the joys of happiness; that human self-confidence is pathetically tenuous; that man loses himself in schemes of felicity...
...Patrolman Eugene Brukiewa, head of the Baltimore police union, spoke up on a local TV show and lashed his superiors for new department policies that had caused police morale to "hit its lowest ebb." Brukiewa was put on probation for conduct unbecoming to an officer. He sued the city police commissioner, charging that his right of free speech had been violated. Ordering a reversal of the disciplinary action, the Maryland Court of Appeals held that the First Amendment protects outspoken policemen despite their paramilitary status...
...districts in Florida and four other Southern states. Although he is almost a liberal (by Florida standards) on racial matters, Kirk also knows an issue when he sees one. His voluble but futile protests had been doing wonders for his local political standing, which had sunk to a low ebb after his bumbling attempt to win the 1968 G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination and disclosures that much of Kirk's high living was bankrolled by contributions to his "Governor's Club." Last week, when Manatee school officials prepared to increase busing among the county's 17,000 students...