Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of people refusing to accept--indeed, revel in--the system of values that now prevails here appeals to me. Here was a deeply corrupt world, where murder and suffering were deeply institutionalized, and Harvard was preparing people blithely to take their places in it and indeed helping to shape it; and students were objecting...
...happy, yet haunted by premonitions of difficulty which took shape the following week as the inevitable testing began. Men twenty years my senior approached me with pointless jokes about decorum, schoolboy excuses about absence, and fears of their ability to give me "what you want." These charades wouldn't help us to face our real differences, and that was precisely their point--to protect us from the embarrassment of assuming equality and then having to confront the sociological truth...
...think we have got a chance. But even if we don't, we look at the rest of the states, either primaries or conventions, and I think we are in pretty good shape...
...little unity there is in the O.A.U. The delegates not only failed to adopt a resolution on Angola, they could not even agree on a final communique. Concluded Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda: "Our failure to find a solution here confirms that the O.A.U. has no power to shape the destiny of Africa...
Unlike a closeup look at the moon, the visual impact of Pacific Overtures is ravishingly beautiful. The screens and sets (Boris Aronson) and costumes (Florence Klotz) transport one hypnotically into the realm of ukiyoe, the "floating world" of the Japanese print. The shape and tone of the show is that of a Kabuki-styled operetta. It is audaciously ambitious and flagrantly pretentious. Pacific Overtures attempts to portray the Westernization of Japan after the arrival of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's trade mission in 1853. The appearance of Perry's battleship is the evening's showstopper. First...