Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andy Young's fall. Young was the highest-ranking black in the Administration, the only one with the President's ear, and blacks felt that he was unfairly and too quickly removed as a result of Jewish pressure. While Jewish groups did protest Young's secret meeting with the P.L.O., Jewish leaders insist they only wanted to torpedo the policy, not Young, noting that in one poll of Jewish leaders, only two called for Young's removal from his post...
...shock and apprehension through the 125-member Moscow troupe, which included Godunov's wife, Ludmila Vlasova, a soloist with the company. At that point some ballet insiders reported that the couple were estranged and that Vlasova, 37, was unwilling to defect with her husband. Still, angry Soviet officials felt it necessary to hold Vlasova incommunicado at the hotel. Because the Bolshoi has long been groomed to be the showcase of Soviet culture, Godunov's flight was evidently viewed as even more of a betrayal than the earlier defections of such luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova and Mikhail...
...Yosemite and Yellowstone painted by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and their followers in the 19th century. An entire tradition of seeing is inherent in the word wilderness; it is essentially romantic. As Szarkowski has observed, "Adams' pictures are perhaps anachronisms. They are perhaps the last confident and deeply felt pictures of their tradition . . . It does not seem likely that a photographer of the future will be able to bring to the heroic wild landscape the passion, trust and belief that Adams has brought...
Insurance firms and banks have been hit especially hard by the shortage, but the effects are also being felt in such "glamour" industries as publishing, television and advertising. Chicago's First National Bank has been giving $500 bounties to employees who recruit new secretaries, and the big CNA insurance firm offers color TVs. Sears, Roebuck and California's Crocker National Bank have held open house parties in an attempt to attract applicants...
...Like Ernest Hemingway, who also spent childhood summers on a lake in Michigan, Buster early became an extremely proficient duck hunter." Such blemishes are too bad. Keaton never pretended that there was more to his work than met the eye, because he did not have to. Unfortunately, his biographer felt that pretensions were necessary, when the life and art alone would have been enough.-Paul Gray