Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes, I feel I'd almost prefer that system again (as a reader). What happened to it, of course, was that the pendulum swung the other way both in connection with attitudes toward the medium (movies began to be called films), and attitudes toward journalism. The rationale for the latter was very simple: Since reviewing cannot help but be in very large measure a matter of personal taste anyway, why not drop the facade of objective reporting, and let the reviewer display his personality...
This series "is like a pendulum kind of thing" Essick said. "It has been on Yale's side and now it has swung over to ours...
When the white column crosses the slope its point swings like a pendulum, as though it is gathering momentum for a charge down the mountain. But then something seems to anger it and it will balks or pouts and leaps over the lift tower, quivering and shaking violently in paroxysms. As if two wills were fighting for it--one impelling it down the mountain trail, to swirl light-fingered down the moguls, and the other pulling back in horror from the touch of the slick ice or hard packed snow or rocks beneath the powdery surface fluff...
...threat that the oil offensive will go into high gear again. One Arab source told TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager last week that if the Middle East peace talks now taking place in Geneva do not produce results by mid-March, "don't be surprised if the pendulum swings all the way to a 30% reduction" in petroleum output. Most important of all, the latest astonishing price boosts will disrupt the economies of even those Western nations that find Arab oil freely available. By unilaterally hiking the price of crude for the first time, the Arabs not only...
LEVERETT HOUSE DINING HALL, The Pit and the Pendulum...