Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent of the school children are from minority groups. But the NSCAR never takes an official stand on the validity of the concept of the School Committee. Their efforts are directed more towards middle-class whites already segregated in suburbia, and students isolated on campuses, than towards the black inner-city community...
...take their course, it will implicitly choose a certain kind of environment--one, perhaps, in which all Cambridge slowly becomes like Harvard and MIT until we find that we are no longer an urban university but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind of inner-city suburb with a single life style...
...almost unspeakable. There were twelve separate scheduled events, mainly meetings and appearances. Ford greeted or talked to more than 100 people, made two formal speeches outside the White House. He placed a dozen telephone calls beyond the premises, received at least as many, conducted literally countless confabs on the inner-office lines. Three meals were eaten, ablutions performed, family members counseled, six newspapers perused, four TV newscasts sampled, scores of memorandums absorbed. He did pushups, smoked, joked, shook hands in unrecorded but generous portions...
...months, so some air must get to it but flies must not. The answer in Ishikawa prefecture is to sheathe it in straight wisps of straw and then bind it in straw rope like a corn husk, unwrap as much as you need, cut it off, close the inner layer of straw, retie the bundle. Such packaging uses humble materials with breathtaking panache: witness a bottle for sweet sake from Tokyo, coarse brown earthenware capped with a mottled sheet of bamboo bark and tied with creeper - an ordering of color and texture so fine as to annihilate (by comparison...
...troubled household. The three sons are creatures of compromise and uncertainty. Andrew, the eldest (Alan Bates), has forsaken a legal career to paint geometric canvases. His flattery and good will always carry an edge of irony that barely conceals a fearful rage. Out of the urgencies of inner demons, he proposes a familial "vengeance," in which he wants to enlist the brothers. Colin (James Bolam) is a glib expert in "industrial relations." Steven, the youngest (Brian Cox), is fighting unsuccessfully to finish a novel. He expresses himself in tentative gestures and terse sentences. Yet it is he who manages...