Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finals so rough? Christ I'm glad they're over with. I worked my ass off studying those last couple of weeks." Comments like these do much to enliven an otherwise dull vacation, and the possibilities for more intense discussion are infinite. There's nothing like sharing the relief of all your friends, who themselves can hardly refrain from exclaiming, "You wanted Harvard...
...beatings, the stonings and the angry demonstrations that accompanied school desegregation all seem to be behind. Where there was hatred, there now is relief and a rising sense of vitality. The South Boston Marshalls, which once fought against school busing, now run afterschool athletic programs. Luxury apartments and a hotel may be built near the places where motorcycle cops once roared into angry crowds to separate blacks and whites. "I feel hopeful about the city," said Jerry Carey, a white social worker. "There is, overall, less paranoia, wider horizons...
...supper, though, now I'm partial to the baked stuffed flounder with newburg sauce, but when you finally get a meal you can stomach, the tendency is to overeat and...plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief...
...read this as either a relief or a tragedy, the supply of eager fighters seems to outstrip the demand. The back pages of the winter '77 issue are filled with classified ads like "Vietnam vet, experienced, seeks high-risk, high-pay work anywhere in the world." The seekers are the sad legacy of Vietnam. They know how to fight, but not what to fight for--unless the draft or a soldier's salary is a good basis for killing people. The ads do not read, "Good soldier seeks just and true cause to support...
...boring and insipid fribbles of Marie Laurencin, but why include a third-rate vendeuse of exotic surrealist tack like Leonor Fini? In such company, artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kathe Kollwitz, Nataliia Goncharova and Sonia Delaunay look extraordinary; one's eye goes with relief to Goncharova's crude, provincial but raucously vital cubist portrait of her husband Mikhail Larionov (1913), the face kippered flat and streaked with voracious slashes of color; it luxuriates in the shimmer of rosy light, circle on circle, that fills the surface of Delaunay's masterpiece...