Word: order
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court decided in the Weber case [July 9] that discrimination is acceptable as a means to end discrimination. This logic reminds me of nothing so much as those haunting words from the war in Viet Nam: we had to destroy the town in order to save...
Could it just possibly be that those who said 15 years ago that we had a moral obligation to intervene in Southeast Asia in order to prevent an oppressively totalitarian Communist regime from turning Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos into a bloody nightmare were right after...
...solos; John Entwistle, like all bass players, stands expressionless. You can see all this in The Kids Are Alright; but you miss the music. For some reason, Jeff Stein--who put the movie together--chose a few very good film sequences and mixed them up, without any sense of order, with a lot of trashy ones...
...18th century, however, the old classicism was replaced by a new aesthetic. The purpose of art, philosophers and poets of the day argued, was not to impose an artificial order on nature, but to reveal, as John Dryden put it, "God's first idea." Mocking such conceits as clipping bushes into the shapes of beasts, Alexander Pope urged that the three arts of poetry, painting and gardening be united. The first to execute Pope's grand vision successfully was Architect, Painter and Landscape Artist William Kent, who began work on Claremont around 1725. Nature abhors a straight line...
...York thrives between the pit and the pendulum. Theater attendance is up and so is the number of tourists who come to the megalopolis. This gas-shy summer will be no exception. Herewith, in alphabetical order, a ten-best list of attractions on and off Broadway well worth the high price of admission. Mind you, taste is a priceless democratic choice, and there are other shows that will reward a visit...