Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first hour of the film, adolescent protagonist Alex and his gang ravage a futuristic England, rape, vandalize, and murder. They are complete scoundrels, not redeemed by mutual esteem or sympathy for the unfortunate. But they are so vital and exuberant, and Kubrick is so technically masterful that, despite one's moral abhorrence, one cannot help but sympathize. One giggles...
This fresh, efficient first novel speaks directly-almost without distracting fictional paraphernalia-to women who are raising their consciousness and simultaneously lowering their esteem for men. In general, it goes over subjects that are becoming all too familiar at an alarming rate: the folly of women who define themselves only in terms of men and the tyranny of a culture that penalizes them unless they do so. But the author has found an original and horrific setting for her story: a singles apartment-club in Los Angeles...
...they rose to $1.4 billion; or a margin of 6.7% on sales of $21 billion. That was well above the strike distorted margin of 3.2% last year, but still far below G.M.'s 10.3% in 1965. Gerstenberg holds most of the company's critics in no great esteem and once reprimanded a former G.M. executive who had made some slightly disparaging remarks about the company. "Once a G.M. man always a G.M. man," Gerstenberg snapped. Yet he has given serious thought to the issues raised by the corporation's critics. At a meeting of the National Wildlife...
...curious fact that even in America, the masks, totems, clothes, paintings and beadwork of the 57 Indian tribes represented in this show were the last forms of "primitive" art to win general esteem outside their own tribal context. Only ethnologists were interested. The red man's images scarcely influenced white culture-unlike African art, whose impact on early 20th century painting was fundamental. Max Ernst collected kachina dolls, and Jackson Pollock, it is said, was interested in Navajo sand paintings; but as a rule, whether it was treated as knickknacks or, more decently, as ethnographical evidence, Indian...
...copper miner enthusiastically told newsmen last week that "Fidel made us see the importance of our producing more. Now, we are all Fidelistas." But the visit also cost Allende some of his remaining good will among the Chilean political middle, which does not hold the Cuban dictator in particular esteem...