Word: fa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government was trying to project at least a façade of moderation. Last week it permitted an unprecedented television debate among three representatives from Solidarity, three from the official unions and three from the Ministry of Labor and Wages. For 45 minutes, the panel discussed Solidarity's demands, from the five-day week to access to the national media to the farmers' union. The government presumably hoped to portray Solidarity as leading the country toward economic and social ruin, a point that official television commentators have begun to make regularly. If so, the ploy failed...
...ignore her.) "Personally, I'm dramatic, it seems," she told an interviewer a few years ago. "I have a feeling maybe my appearance is deceptive. Because if you're going to put on a show like I do, they don't know beneath that façade there's something else...
What lies beneath the façade is a self-constructed woman, one of the four or five most distinguished living sculptors. By right, the grande dame of American art is Georgia O'Keeffe, 13 years Nevelson's senior; but O'Keeffe is reported to be almost blind and unable to paint any longer. Not so Nevelson, who sails into her ninth decade with undiminished vigor. The year 1980 brought her a load of work, commissions and exhibitions heavy enough to floor an artist half her age. It was her big year. In its wake, some...
...reject, dynamite and otherwise ridicule the structures and ideas of the previous generation in order to make room for its own. Often enough, when the Oedipal din has died down, the world has been left with a new wheel rather like the old one. St. Augustine detested his fa ther and rejected him with an unholy vehemence. Yet in his later years, Augustine in many ways came to resemble his father almost eerily...
...plus five years of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." On television last June, the widely revered Father Dmitri Dudko confessed to having slandered the Soviet system. The priest reportedly yielded to threats that all his parishioners would be arrested if he did not recant. Significantly, denunciations of Fa ther Yakunin in the Soviet press at the time of his trial prompted 250 people from all over the U.S.S.R. to apply for membership in his committee to defend the country's believers...