Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Impossible Job. At week's end Rumor accepted President Leone's mandate and set about trying to salvage a workable government that could pull the country out of its economic morass. Some cynics insisted that his job had actually been made easier: Leone's call was proof that no other Italian politician cared to challenge Rumor for an impossible job. Others suggested that if worse came to worst, Rumor could fall back on the old remedy for recurring summertime crises by forming a balneare (seaside) government that could run the country until the vacation season ended...
...strong emotions. "I realized in 1972 that we needed a change to free ourselves from mentally constipated attitudes," Novelist White (The Eye of the Storm) told an overflow crowd in Sydney's stunning new Opera House. "Mr. Whitlam has helped Australians to heave themselves out of that terrible morass which caused so many talented Australians to leave the country for the wider world outside, where their ideas and ideals won recognition." Said the Prime Minister: "We have given Australia a new pride and standing in the world ... We have buried old animosities. We are held in new respect...
Worst of all, board members can see no quick way out of the economic morass. As Washington rivets its attention on impeachment proceedings, says Robert Nathan, "the impossibility of getting anything out of the Executive Branch of the Government at this time means we are just going to drift." Banker Beryl Sprinkel urges the Government to "keep our [fiscal and monetary] policy reasonably tight, settle for 5% or 5.5% unemployment, and then the rate of inflation could drift down"-over the next three to five years. Okun sees only one quick way of stopping inflation: "Panic-a real shake...
...floors, lots of mirrors, chandeliers and easily filchable gold-plated faucets in the rest rooms. The disconcertingly dominant feature of the theater, alas, is a campy, Daliesque mural by Spanish Painter Enrique Senis-Oliver called Homage to Terpsichore, which all but swallows the proscenium. Immortalized in an agonized, thrusting morass of naked dancers is a chastely gowned portrait of Mrs. Harkness, making obeisance to the goddess of dance. The painting almost glows in the dark, which means that the audience can still glimpse undraped breasts and genitals even during a performance...
...youngest U.S. Governor but also among the most inexperienced, having won elective office only once before, as state auditor. The salvos came early and fast at the reform-minded Governor, primarily over an issue that is one of the hottest facing state governments. The issue: reorganization of the morass of committees, agencies, boards and departments that set state policy. Bond is streamlining Missouri's government -but not without a fight. As he puts...