Word: excessives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powerful Pack. There was an excess of absurdity about the whole thing. Examined from any angle, a breach with Malaysia contained no certain advantage for Pakistan or disadvantage to its archenemy, India-with whom Pakistan's diplomatic relations ironically remain undisturbed...
...began with a few California surfers who could sew. The girls had imported bright, flowery muu muus from Hawaii to wear after surfing. But muu muus were originally thought up by missionaries to cover up the exposed breasts of the native women. The kids trimmed off the excess material, accentuated the bodice for trim fit, slit the skirt for free movement, and finished it all off with yards of ruffles and flourishes. When enough of the home-grown variety showed up on the street, store buyers decided it was a fad worth cashing in on. Selling...
...which change is often so subtle that it sometimes does not seem like change at all. It is a reformation in which radical ideas blossom in traditional Latin garb, in which continuity receives as much emphasis as novelty, in which new ways are inevitably coupled with warnings against imprudent excess. It is a reformation not of acts but of attitudes whose distant goal is the ultimate reconciliation of the church with other faiths and with the modern world It is, in fact, the kind of reformation precisely suited to the temper of the lonely, sensitive, cautious and puzzling...
...Hope? Such criticism?coming mostly from Catholic perfectionists who want an overnight change in the church ?appears somewhat overanxious. Paul's penchant for warning against excess seems to be largely an expression of his cautious and gloomy nature. Last week, for example, on a visit to the catacombs of Domitilla, he compared the persecuted Christians of old to those who today live in "nations with atheistic and totalitarian" governments. "I sometimes wonder if Paul isn't lacking in the virtue of hope," says one Jesuit...
...serving as banker to the world. And the increased supply of reserves would ease the pressure on the dollar because 1) the U.S. could easily borrow the new reserve units when it needed to tide over balance-of-payments debts, and 2) foreign dollar holders could exchange their excess dollars for the new reserve units instead of for U.S. gold...