Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overlooked by the Lincoln Memorial, the festival holds forth as a patchwork of Americana to show the nation's ethnic roots from abroad and their perpetuation in American history. The Smithsonian's scholars reject with a shudder the "melting pot" concept of America. They believe in an ethnically diverse, pluralistic nation to which scores of cultures have supplied the pieces that make up the American mosaic...
Last week New York's suspense story reached the melodrama stage as Mayor Abraham Beame went before TV cameras to unveil a "crisis" budget of $11.9 billion for fiscal 1976. A patchwork document hurriedly reproduced on copying machines by 150 clerks who worked through the night, the budget calls for dismissals of 37,315 city employees, or one-fourth of the total, including 12.5% of the police department, 2,304 firemen, 8,941 school employees and 2,882 sanitation men. That would come on top of 35,082 job eliminations planned under Beame's previous "austerity" budget...
...Look at this picture," he commands, his bulging, saucer eyes electric under the flu's rheumy glaze. "It's a wreck, a total wreck. But I think some of its qualities can still be appreciated, that I can help in our teaching." Slive is right. The canvas is a patchwork of flaking paint, but it's still--well--pleasing...
...patchwork, We Are Your Sons is held together by the authors' faith in their parents' complete innocence. Yet between the jury's guilty verdict and the chance of a total frame-up is a possibility that the true believers-on both sides-would probably not entertain: that the Rosenbergs were guilty of low-level spying and the Government trumped up additional evidence and coached witnesses to turn a weak case into a sensational show trial. The truth may be resting uneasily in those unopened Washington files. · R.Z. Sheppard
...south side of Flint, Mich., is a patchwork of auto factories, union halls, corner taverns and conventional churches. Yet in this prosaic setting has arisen in recent years a belief as startling as anything cult-filled California has to offer. The unlikely focus of the new faith is Bernard Gill, for 13 years a respected clergyman in the Church of the Nazarene. Fed up with "promotion, programs, plans," he searched for a fiercer, purer form of Fundamentalism. Seven years ago, at 43, he quit the Nazarenes and with a handful of parishioners established the independent Colonial Village Church...