Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone asks whether the union is in part an outgrowth of the women's movement, since three-fourths of the group District 65 seeks to unionize are women. "No," Strunsky says. "We didn't grow out of a women's group...
...also has to do with all the things that people say about American child-rearing patterns, and parents not having any self-definition themselves in many cases. How many people really grow up in families where there is both open warmth and sexuality and also really mutual respect and equality between the parents? It's just not around, and many of the two-career families that one sees are families where the other dimension is just not apparent in the relationship between the couple. There can be something about career pressures that can kill the possibility of a complicated emotional...
...problem here, as in Earthquake, is that the scriptwriters feel obligated to fritter away time on people's banal problems. Bad marriages and love affairs naturally come apart, good ones grow better as the flames leap higher. Obvious cheaters and other meanies (the fire started because Builder Holden skimped on Architect Newman's safety specifications) get their comeuppance, while individuals of quiet integrity win a chance to prove their virtue...
...Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other officials reported that the Soviet Union's total output of goods and services had risen by 5% in 1974 and would climb by 6.5% in the new year when most Western economies will stand still or grow much more slowly. The Soviets plan to increase industrial production another 7% in 1975, emphasizing output of heavy machinery and other "steel eaters" as usual, but also stepping up the flow of consumer goods for the fourth year...
...earlier plays he achieved repetitiveness, instead of the cumulative force of the late ones. A three-hour trifle in the O'Neill canon, Ah, Wilderness! was written in 1933. A comedy, it describes how, on July 4, 1906, 17-year-old Dick Miller (Richard Backus) began to grow up. That was the day he fell in love, was spurned, got drunk and realized that his parents were, after all, human...