Word: flux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course is not designed for consciousness--raising," Kahne said. "It will not be an encounter group, nor a cookbook course on life--styles. This is a time when institutions are in flux, and we hope to examine within a factual framework the present value system and the dynamics of those decisions which women pursuing the professions reach...
Even though television has pre-empted much of the visual reportage that was once photojournalism's particular domain, the great photographer still has an unassailable place. He records the exact moment-seized out of the passing flux of the event-that fixes an image or an emotion for all time. Television's eye is quick, but flickering. The photojournalist is a permanent witness...
...C.E.D. statement outlines the sort of approach that President Nixon has felt is an interference with free-market principles. But the Administration's policy is now in a state of flux. Nixon advisers are disconcerted by the amount of unemployment that their policies have helped to cause, and are debating in their budget-drafting sessions how far they dare move toward restimulating the economy without stirring still more inflation. The President has been moving grudgingly toward an incomes policy. In June, he set up a committee to study how productivity could be increased, and commissioned periodic "inflation alerts" documenting...
...THEATRE Centre opens its season with Jack, or The Submission and The Bald Soprano by Ionesco, two plays with a spooky flux between motion and verbiage. Harnessing the two elements for full impact calls less for enthusiasm, which these productions have in quantity, than for measured coordination of stage blockings. In the HTC program notes, Director-Producer Rosann Weeks asserts an ideal commitment to "vital, direct, and positive communication with our audience." Somehow or other, their good intentions get tripped up in a confusion of artistic priorities, which leaves the first play choppy, the second slow-paced and staid...
Within the screen, one viewer sees a configuration of the Virgin Mary, another a storm at sea, a third the blossoming of an exotic tropical plant. But the Kalliroscope is more than a Rorschach in flux. It is also a work of art, a study in hydrodynamics, a patented invention, a decoration, a toy-and with sales already exceeding 15,000-one of this year's most successful novelty items...