Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Significantly, the principal movements that have emerged in the past decade have tended to coalesce around ideas, not leaders: the women's movement, the environmental movement, the fitness movement, for example. Those who participate seem to be too independent, too critical, too wary of the dangers of leadership to entrust themselves to others. The cautionary examples of cults?the followers of Sun Myung Moon or Jim Jones?merely confirm the wary in their independence...
...still anticipating our unfulfilled promise," says Bill Moyers, a member of the Class of 200 who remains one of the most perceptive journalists on public television. Roughly half of those on the original list are playing much the same leadership roles as they did five years ago. A quarter seem to be exerting greater impact. The rest have lost standing or influence, sometimes voluntarily, sometimes...
...claims is simply an "amalgam" of individualism in economic affairs. He is skeptical that the political system can produce beneficial change and looks instead to forces "from the principled minority." Wills, who spent six years in a Catholic seminary, says that "the Gospel's concerns are the ones that seem to me to be conservative in the right sense: concern for the poor, concern for peace, concern for social harmony." A humanities professor at Johns Hopkins and a classics scholar, Wills has written scathingly of Richard Nixon (Nixon Agonistes) and brilliantly of Thomas Jefferson (Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration...
Nothing, indeed. The Red Sox, on the other hand, have a pennant at stake this year, and if they intend to keep pace with the Baltimore Orioles--who seem to grind out one win after another with mechanical precision--they can not afford to drop the silly slouch games they always seem to blow when the Indians roll into town...
...throughout that he can jump a century between lines of a verse, begin a song like Powderfinger as a folk tale ("Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river"), then turn it into an apocalypse. Of all rock's major figures, Young seems to have absorbed the most from the punk movement. The music on this record, punched up in part by Young's band, Crazy Horse, is full of brash challenge, like the best punk. Even his acoustic songs-sometimes witty, often wildly romantic-have the kind of recklessness and daring...