Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly the movement itself has invited the ironist's eye. Foreigners have traditionally regarded American women with a sort of wary bemusement; they seemed a race of cool, assertive, pampered and sometimes savagely domineering women. In 1898, the Scots traveler James F. Muirhead observed, with what was surely a chauvinist's exaggeration: "Man meekly submits to be the hewer of wood, the drawer of water, and the beast of burden for the superior sex." Yet now the New Feminists assert-an irony that does not invalidate the argument-that it is they who are dominated...
...under William Alfred. The Bull Only Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime numbers as her fifth product. Beyond this, she has done extensive directing, including productions of Joe Egg and Look Back in Anger at the Loeb last year, and two one-acts, Black Comedy and The Public Eye, last fall. In May she returns to the Loeb to direct the Harvard Dramatic Club Production of Moliere's Imaginary Invalid...
...Portugese responded as if their one eye had been put out. they conducted a savage witch-hunt, arresting and executing any who were suspected of being leaders or potential leaders of the liberation movement. Along the railway line from Luanda to Malanje in the interior, troops, police, and militia massacred Africans at will. Using weapons donated by NATO countries, the Portugese re-won control of most of their colony. Liberation forces scattered to isolated forest areas where they remain in control to this day. All told, up to 50,000 Africans are said to have died in the 1961 fighting...
...Spanish and putting the school on double sessions. The senior high school is already on double sessions. Crowding there will become worse because the student body of 3,066 is expected to grow by roughly 300 youngsters annually in 1973 and 1974. Even now, teachers cannot keep an eye on all the students. Thefts and assaults are so common in the high school that even the local police chief, Joe McCarthy, laments: "I'll be glad when my son gets out of there. It's so bad that the students are often afraid to go to the lavatories...
...floor--even they have tense, strained, expectant faces. And all these faces are directed towards the one spot of bright light in the dark, a spot whose neatness and order and placidity are emphasized by the chaos of cables and cameras and crewpeople surrounding it. It is the eye of the hurricane, calm and bright and perfect, and it is out of that calm bright perfection that a movie will blossom forth...