Word: echo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MacArthur High the shiny corridors echo emptily after 2:30. Many teachers and students leave as soon as possible after the last bell. "I'm working hard not to take it out on the students," says one lanky high school teacher. He is wearing a defiant lapel button picturing two crossed boards. (One of the school board members allegedly threatened to hit the teachers' union with a two-by-four, then hit it again with a four-by-six when it was down.) Other teachers wear buttons reading I GAVE TO LEVITTOWN. So far, more than 20 teachers...
...aims of regulations may often be admirable, the same cannot be said of the means. Over the years, the thrust has changed for the worse. In the early days, the purpose was to guard against abuse by telling employers what they were forbidden to do. Today business people commonly echo the complaint of Willard Butcher, president of Chase Manhattan Bank: "Washington has begun to dictate not only what we must do but also how we must do it." Alfred Kahn, the former head of the CAB who is now Carter's anti-inflation chief, insists that "the best lesson...
Other anarchists echo Nason's criticism. "I think it's harmful to delegate authority to other people, like elected officials. It's much better to retain control over our own lives," Ann Kotell, a member of Black Rose, an organization which sponsors an anarchist lecture series at MIT, says. "The state has murdered more people and created more misery and horror than any of the problems it sought to alleviate ever...
...superbly-integrated work of art in its own right, a choreographic realization of the mood of lyric poetry. Even the form is that of lyric: a sequence of expressive meditations, a personal dream-world made vivid in the ephemeral moment. Like the shapes in a dreaming mind, the dancers echo a single identity. All save the one man are dressed exactly alike in flowering tulle, and their interaction is a matter of motion, not of differing feelings. No sexual tension develops in the male-female pas de deux...
...turn "a green that was so fierce, Isaac had to grab the wall." In Ireland, the sky is so dark, "the elves must have put a roof on Cashel Hill." Shouts of murderers and comedians sound across the Hudson and Liffey rivers. Episodes in Nighttown and the underworld consciously echo the rhythms of James Joyce and Saul Bellow, but Charyn manages to sustain his own peculiar tone, a unique amalgam of psychological insight and scatological farce. It is one of the most unlikely and compeling literary combinations since T.S. Eliot's Gerontion mixed garlic and sapphires...