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Word: soaringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite possible that stocks may soar after some favorable turn of events in the near future, but last week the bearish mood went far beyond economics alone. As Howard Stein, president of the Dreyfus Fund, put it: "What is happening on Wall Street is what is happening in the world. We are overextended morally, economically and politically, and we are about to get our first margin call as a national power." In front of the Corinthian columns of the New York Stock Exchange, hard-hatted construction workers bearing American flags attacked a group of youthful antiwar demonstrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

Otto Piene rejects the "microscopic" tools of the traditionalist-paint, brush, stone. His media are electricity, wind, gas, fire, smoke and movement. "There is one essential difference between Gothic cathedrals and rockets: a cathedral seems to soar, expressing the yearning of its builders to ascend to heaven; a rocket does soar. The same technical difference exists between traditional sculpture and my objects. Mine don't merely express something. They are something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Next, the Sun | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...court at Egypt was enervated and decidedly unexotic, unmajestic, uninercurial, and rather bland, tired, and timid. There was petulance instead of the passionate anger of a moody, selfish, regal, lover-queen. Miss Yakutis must avail herself, as I know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout and sing her way to complexity. The soldiers are unremittingly declamatory, laboring to render each line as massively as possible. They don't speak to each other, but keep trying to lurch into Shakespeare's execrable Titus Andronicus oratory. Too many speeches are self...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: The Theatregoer Antony and Cleopatra at the Loeb through May 9 | 5/2/1970 | See Source »

Domed silos stand like sentinels on the horizon. Black Angus cattle amble toward lopsided gray barns. Giant TV antennas, strung with a maze of guy wires, soar 30 ft. above tiny farmhouses. Irrigation ditches run to nowhere. And standing forlornly in fields of stubble corn, boys in blue denim coveralls stare back, but they do not wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Last Days of the Zephyr | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...smaller asteroids, gravity might be so weak that the jumper would reach escape velocity and soar off into space. With great leaps, the astronaut could also cover more ground. He could probably circumnavigate the little world in a few hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expedition to Eros | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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