Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Logos, people grasp for symbols of personal identify and some form of order for their lives. Several are pathetically familiar. One health-faddist coed wears a button proclaiming "CARROTS:" a liberal professor nervously skitters around the barren campus with an armband that reads "TREES." A studious team-mate of Gary's furiously memorizes the words to a long poem in a language he doesn't understand, for a course in "The Untellable." ("Knowledge of German was a prerequisite for being refused admission...
...with an 18-in. or larger screen. One of twelve translucent overlays that simulate "playing fields," complete with figures of players, is taped to the screen. A circuit card that conjures up from one to three light squares is inserted into the master unit. The squares appear, the players grasp the knobs on their control units, and the game...
...exerting their influence upon those organs of the government which employ think tanks, mostly within the executive branch, citizens can grasp--feebly but surely--the strings of power that blow in bureaucratic winds. The Pentagon Papers was a beginning. The press has a responsibility to seek out and then inform the public of abuses within the decision-making process of the government. Then, through the force of popular opinion and at the polls, Americans can accept or reject the government's and in particular the think tanks, course of action, or, as with Vietnam, refuse to participate in implementation...
...mood of figures submitting to the earth and supernatural forces prevails throughout "Epic." Weakened by some unearthly power, the dancers take turns falling out of the dance; two male dancers grasp the arms of a girl, she falls straight back like a statue knocked over, and is dragged dramatically off stage. Players move on and off the stage, a recurring theme of growth and decay as the numbers of dancers increases and decreases...
...finished off eight centuries of musical technique, at least for me," says Eaton. For many listeners Heracles may simply have finished off serialism, suggesting that little more can be done to make that strait-laced and formulistic method of sticking notes together work in operatic terms. Eaton's grasp of musical technique is distinctly impressive, but his sense of theater is so undeveloped it verges on naivete. Heracles' characters discourse at enormous length but never with enough musical depth to make themselves or their arguments convincing. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Eaton knows how to use an orchestra...