Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politics, and tries to answer his children's ritualistic questions: "Where are you off to again? What do you do when you get there?" Grass's answer is a sort of bedtime story on politics, featuring as hero the snail: "It seldom wins, and then by the skin of its teeth. It crawls, it goes into hiding but keeps on, putting down its quickly drying track on the historical landscape. Having lived through the schizophrenia of the 20th century-history as fanaticism and history as paralysis-Grass sees no choice but to endorse a middle philosophy...
...sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade -- shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody -- the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory -- at this point the movie gets boring -- he makes fools...
...youth tide did not ebb without reshaping the landscape. A mere glimpse of the hair and clothing styles of Wall Street commuters is enough to convince anyone that the youth impact of the '60s was at least skin deep. And deeper. The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18, the draft was abolished, and students were given places of responsibility in college administrations. Age has paid another compliment to youth in taking over some of its protest tactics. People over 65, in particular, are organizing to better their...
...Fischer was going to use an enormous aerial camera from World War II to photograph the region between the sun and Mercury....Mauritania has one modern hospital. Six doctors. Four midwives. Fifty-eight secondary school teachers. But that's an improvement...."I felt that shadow come right through my skin and the marrow of my bones." --From Darkness over the desert, a scientific adventure story by Anne Fadiman...
...medieval Cathedral of St. Pierre, the preacher who stood in John Calvin's pulpit was W.C.C. General Secretary Philip A. Potter, a West Indian Methodist and a black. When the cathedral organ was silent, Papa O'Yeah MacKenzie, a black drummer from Ghana who wore a leopard-skin jacket, played lively percussion solos...