Word: raison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black caucus that met in Gary, Ind. [March 27], had as its raison d' être the roots of prejudice. Its members built rhetoric on the atrocities of discrimination. They said they stood for justice and against exploitation of human beings. And yet how easily they ignored the only group whose fortitude truly challengs the foundatios of prejudicial thinking, whose political aims so closely reflect those the caucus gave lip service to− women. So firmly entrenched are we in the roots of prejudice that even the discriminated against act in turn to discrimate. Does anyone doubt it that...
...blankets, and a roof over their heads. As digs go, the conditions, though certainly rudimentary, were not as primitive as they might have been--Winchester wasn't in a desert, and plumbing was supplied, eliminating common inconveniences of classical field digs. For these attractions, applications poured in, forcing Caroline Raison, the coordinator for volunteer recruiting, to select only one out of four applicants. Personal enthusiasm but common sense were requisite, and as Raison explained, the project wanted "people with a realistic outlook, not you know, people who think they'll be looking for King Arthur's Round Table, or digging...
...Dark Ages, so the Marines at the Eighth and I Street barracks, an imposing brick quadrangle in the midst of the city's black ghetto, insist on maintaining the values that were the U.S. military's before it went mod. Here the emphasis, indeed the very raison d'être, is the preservation of spit-and-polish discipline. Let the other services allow beer in the barracks or sideburns in the field. Not the Marines, where tough tradition continues to be served. Since 1957, the spring and summer parades at Eighth and I have been an integral...
Bulldozing Begins. The councilmen's raison was that a growing city like Paris must find workable compromises between nostalgia and practicality. But the conservationists had a particularly strong point. Already the quais along the Seine are disappearing behind riverfront expressways; part of the Tuileries Gardens are to be dug up for an underground telephone exchange; and the skyline of Montparnasse has been scarred by high-rises. Next week, the bulldozing of Les Halles is scheduled to begin, and the city intends to keep riot police on guard to prevent squatters from impeding the wreckers. Unless there is an unforeseen...
...musical convention of using songs to advance a simple-minded script in favor of letting the music add new levels of meaning to a sophisticated libretto (by James Goldman). In this way, the central plot idea of Follies becomes merely one more ingredient of the show rather than its raison d'etre...