Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Free Shakespeare was never anything less than a struggle. Besides the usual problem of financing, Papp and his crew were beset by those, including New York's then parks commissioner, who were scandalized by the very idea of free theater. With surprising political skill and an iron will, both picked up on the streets of Brooklyn, Papp hung on, determined not only to use the park but to have the city pay part of the cost of production as well. Eventually he got his way, and in 1960 the city gave him $60,000-revenue from subway chewing...
...primary targets of the government's continuing "pacification drive" are the Hutu "elite"-meaning not merely the five Hutu cabinet ministers who were summarily executed at the beginning of the rebellion but practically anybody who can write his own name or afford a hut with a corrugated-iron roof instead of a thatched one. At one school, 140 Hutu boys and girls were shot or hacked to death by soldiers. Though the rate of killings had diminished by last week, troops were still descending on isolated villages at night and murdering the local leaders. Writes TIME Reporter David Martin...
Economic Help. Despite their official commitment to socialism, the Algerians are amenable to economic help from any nation. At El Hadjar, the huge new industrial complex through which they proudly escorted Castro last week, the steel plant is Russian, the cast-iron plant French, the pipe plant West German, and the hot rolling mill Italian. "We take the best of each," says an official. "Some may call us opportunistic. We prefer the word pragmatic...
...color, whether cobalt blue, pink or a peculiarly sensuous acid green - disclose, on study, fascinating inflections and qualifications. These nuances constitute a structure. Resnick's paintings, unlike those of some so-called "lyrical abstractionists" 20 years his junior, never go soft or flossy; they are controlled by an iron will to form. Except that the forms do not become explicit; they remain stored in the pigment like warmth in stone. · Robert Hughes
...corporate pantsuits, miniskirts and even hot pants was, until a few years ago, confined largely to airline and rent-a-car hostesses. Now, career apparel may even be seen on leasing agents and telephone operators. One manufacturer clothes the employees of a city water-and-light department, an ornamental-iron company and a war veterans' nursing home...