Word: glare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unaided by the power of mass media. Today, our media have brought us to the brink of total cultural, regional homogeneity, and it would seem that the future of American folk music is the worse for it. Folk culture is a funky flower which wilts easily under the harsh glare of critical dogma...
While preparing to putt during a friendly Acapulco match, Golf Champion Lee Trevino was startled to see an iguana slink onto the green and glare balefully at his golf ball. Trevino gingerly sank a 12-ft. shot from under the lizard's chin, then, since the iguana offered no objections, repeated the performance for local cameramen. The beast departed hurriedly only after Trevino picked it up and dunked it in the pool. When the subject of being Mexican was brought up, Trevino, a Dallas-born Chicano, allowed that he is "making too much money to be Mexican." The poor...
...years she had seemed unable to avoid the glare of publicity. Thus it came as a surprise when word leaked that Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, 58, has for two years sung as a chorister in an almost all-black gospel choir in Nutley, New Jersey's First Baptist Church. Along with the other 100 members of the Angelic Choir, Doris goes to Friday-night choir practice, tours along with the gospelers, and occasionally invites them all up to her 2,500-acre estate in Somerville. "We know Doris is a millionaire," said Pastor Lawrence Roberts. "But all those...
...following and press coverage were flagging. The media had been given the FBI tapes, and although "it is true that it did not record stories about the tapes or photographs while King lived. It only know about them-which was enough-for they backed away from him, turned the glare of their annihilating publicity on others." But, by maintaining this policy of silence, the press "became partners in both the breaking of King and the attempted destruction of a movement for which they once seemed to hold great esteem...
...Dead. When Stokes was elected in 1967, Cleveland, like half a dozen other cities, had experienced bitter riots. Stokes, the first black mayor of a major urban center, became a symbol of hope in Cleveland; and in the glare of national attention, the city embarked on an ambitious program of revitalization and reconciliation called "Cleveland: Now!" The program, to be financed with private donations as a seed fund for federal grants, had the backing of the white business establishment and much of the rest of the community...