Word: picnicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world energy situation has dwindled to self-centered nostalgia for the days of cheap energy and Sunday drives. Meanwhile, massmedia editors and anchormen have chosen to ignore an impending world famine that Notre Dame's President' Theodore Hesburgh says is going to "make the energy crisis look like a picnic." Very few Americans realize that their continued consumption of a disproportionate share of the world's energy spells starvation for millions of people in the Third World. Oil, coal and gas are essential to the production of badly-needed nitrate fertilizer. The price of crude oil alone has quadrupled...
...down three flights of dark creaking stairs and out into the street, on their weekly visit to the park across the tracks. More smokestacks, water towers, sooty deteriorating buildings of brick and steel and concrete, seeming miles of fencing and wires and telephone poles. Some open fields, with empty picnic tables. A threesome awaits its turn at the tee of a golf course...
TOMORROW is the 200th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Party was no picnic, nor was it a purely symbolic act. Celebrating it as either can only obscure our understanding of the American Revolution and conceal the meaning of revolutionary activity in general. That is why there is some significance to the way Americans choose to recall the Tea Party at the beginning of the Revolution's Bicentennial celebration...
...strong two-thirds, even though two of the four themes are eliminated. Townshend programmed some sound effects for the stage and added two small banks of PA amps to the back of the hall, a real stroke of genius, because filling Boston Garden with sound is no picnic. They filled...
...talk about it much any more-I mean, what's to say?" The voice belongs to a New England woman, variously marked by love, marriage, friendship, drink and (of course) intimations of mortality that come, as Auden put it, like sounds of thunder at a picnic...