Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...listen closely as you pass University Hall today you are liable to hear a collective sigh of relief. It's the sigh that comes when you can give 130 freshman their bottom three House choices and still manage to avoid an insurrection...
...cast, in its entirety, consists of Joe Masiell, who sounds, as convention demands, as if he were chanting from the bottom of a rain barrel; Mort Schuman, who comes on tousled and puppyish and is presumably available for comic relief; and Elly Stone. Miss Stone is what Variety might call a diminutive thrush. She is at pains to assure us, however, that she is mighty of spirit. In every song she gives it all she's got. In her case, this amounts to two wide eyes, a loud voice and a battery of emotional gestures that range from wringing...
...further decreases is a bill before Congress that would raise price supports for farmers. Albert Rees, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, warned last week that approval of the bill would lead to another surge in food prices: "The consumer is just beginning to get some relief from high food prices, and I don't believe he will take very kindly to this legislation...
...Orwell sought to bring about that improvement. His weapons were not formidable. As Lionel Trilling observes, Orwell's pieces excel "by reason of the very plainness of his mind, his simple ability to look at things in a downright undeceived way ... he is not a genius-what a relief! What an encouragement. For he communicates to us the sense that what he has done, any one of us could...
Lumen himself is an old-school radical and internationalist. He muckraked like Lincoln Steffens. During World War I he went to prison as a pacifist like Bertrand Russell, and later founded a progressive school for children. Even in his creaky 80s he flew to Biafra to organize relief for the starving...