Word: latter-day
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...funky as Manny himself. He gained his latter-day reputation in the late fifties. Coming out of a semi-retirement which he spent as a carpenter in a Long Island town, he derided the Hollywood white elephants of that day in punchy prose. He didn't hurl jeremiads from on high, as high-falutin' auteurists do given half the provocation. Instead, he coined the phrase "termite art" to describe what he did like--taut action films with subversively-explored characters--and pulled off a Socratic sleight-of-language which reduced the Establishment to outraged epithets...
Fantastic? No, only grim inevitability if society continues its present dedication to growth and "progress." At least that is the vision conjured by an elaborate study entitled The Limits to Growth. Its sponsors are no latter-day Jeremiahs, but the 70 eminently respectable members of the prestigious Club of Rome. These include Aurelio Peccei, the Italian economist (and former Olivetti chief) who now heads the management firm of Italconsult in Rome; Kogoro Uemura, president of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations; and Britain's Alexander King, director general for scientific affairs of the Office for Economic Cooperation and Development...
...infected all echelons, the crackdown on organized crime, his ever-expanding view of his department's mission. Obviously, Navasky is no blind Kennedy fan. His arguments are credible, his reportage exhaustive, his approach as dispassionate as writing about the Kennedys customarily allows. His book also considers the latter-day liberal's ambiguous feelings about the use of power. Once things seemed simple: you elected good guys like F.D.R. and H.S.T., shouted "All power to the President!" and depended on the Executive Branch to protect the public weal. But by the '60s, the illusion of simplicity was fading...
...fairness to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Oct. 11], it should be pointed out that the great majority of Mormons today neither practice nor support polygamy...
...John to create a libretto. The first three Gospels, says Rice, seem more dependable, since John "was much hotter on visions and supernatural things." They concentrated on Christ's reputation as a humanitarian thinker, the charismatic leader of a dissident movement and a victim who might variously suggest latter-day martyrs like Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. "A big point of Superstar," Rice explains, "is to show the way people react...