Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowhere are the problems more evident than in Detroit and Washington, two archdioceses where the church is confronting sharp dissatisfaction among blacks. In Washington, a fiery, articulate black priest named George A. Stallings Jr., fed up with the church's treatment of blacks, plans to defy James Cardinal Hickey this week by inaugurating his own independent African- American Catholic Congregation. In Detroit, black resentment is aimed at Edmund Cardinal Szoka, who last week finally shut down 21 of the city's 114 parishes, mostly in black neighborhoods, with nine others soon to follow. The action came despite angry protests...
...sharp cultural differences between America and Japan are hardly new concepts, as anyone who has ever been to Tokyo is well aware. In fact, many of the recent "More Like Japan" books have noted that there are many Japanese attitudes--including intense racism and sexism--that the United States would be well advised not to adopt. The distinction between More Like Us and the others is the emphasis; Fallows insists that the only true cure for America's malaise can come from the attributes that initially made the U.S. a great nation...
...father died, and then his manager, Sol Hurok. "I adored both of them," he says. "It was really quite a blow." And the virtuoso circuit was exhausting. "The life of a musician is the most solitary life. Sometimes I did find it very difficult." Cliburn never made any sharp break, just gradually stopped accepting new engagements, spent more time visiting friends (he lives with his mother, Rildia Bee, now 92), composing piano pieces, buying English antiques, presiding over the quadrennial piano competition that bears his name, working out, enjoying himself. "I am the furthest thing from a recluse," he says...
...work its peculiar evocative power. Wilmarth worked the glass, bending it discreetly and etching it with hydrofluoric acid. This frosted the panels and brought out their color, which varied from a cold ice green to a soft, almost moonstone blue, diffused on the face but sometimes concentrated with sharp energy within the edges. The dark steel, seen through this translucency, lost its declarative character; it blurred, and became a presence, or rather an immanence: something very much there yet hard to define...
...White House was an attack on Government waste, fraud and abuse. Singled out for special scorn were "giveaway" programs for the poor. Now, as Congress delves into a spreading scandal at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the hypocrisy of Reagan's rhetoric has been brought into sharp relief. During his Administration, a massive giveaway did take place, but to the greedy, not the needy. HUD, whose prime mission is to provide shelter for low-income citizens, instead became a gold mine for Republican insiders, ambitious developers and powerful Washington consultants...