Word: pyramiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just as the chance is impure -being edited by Liberman's preferences-so too his shapes are not wholly abstract. A disk may allude to the sun, to a breast or to an altar; a triangle to a pyramid or a bird's spread wings. With its vertical masts and calm progression of red, sail-like forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that...
...Western European countries last week were affected by strikes involving not blue-collar workers but professionals near the top of the economic pyramid. In Swedish newspapers, the walkout by a variety of university graduates was called "the luxury strike." To an unsympathetic French press, a work stoppage by members of flight crews from three airlines was "the strike of the rich...
...Irish Liverpudlian in The Reckoning. Sorrier still it is to see the dislocated Hibernians at theirs. For the ancients, there is the public house where they undergo the peculiar process Yeats called "withering into truth." For the film's protagonist, Michael Marler (Nicol Williamson), there is London pyramid climbing-ascending corporate strata by using the bow-and-scrape to superiors and the knee-in-groin against competitors...
Like some pharaoh of a technocratic dynasty, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last week celebrated the completion of a project 17 times larger than Cheops' Pyramid at Giza. Grasping a pair of ceremonial shears, Sadat snipped a bright green ribbon to dedicate El Sadd El AH, the Aswan High Dam on the Upper Nile. As he did, a band played, young girls released flocks of doves, and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny spoke one word of Arabic: "Mabrouk [Congratulations...
Mumford's vision is as Utopian as the "higher and farther" dreams of the technocrats. True believers are free to choose between the two. More skeptical readers may feel that Mumford, over the years of piling book upon book, has created something of a pyramid himself. If the view from the top is chilly, it makes more impressive those moments when Mumford climbs down and fixes his eye on his enduring earthly dream: humanity in intimate, loving touch with nature...