Word: strains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...influx of newcomers is remarkable: 180,000 last year. This has put a heavy strain on Australian social services. Accordingly, the government has decided to cut the number to 140,000 this year, of whom 100,000 will pay only $25 for their journey; the rest of the cost is paid by the Australian government. The reduction will give schools and hospitals a breather, but it may lead to a labor shortage and wage increases; immigrants currently account for one-quarter of Australia's work force...
...that any of this is very surprising, however, because Kissinger has emerged from that strain of policy thinking which is fiercely anti-popular and anti-bureaucratic in its origins. Like the ministers who ruled post-Napoleonic Europe from the conference table at Vienna-and the Eastern Establishment figures who preceded him as policy-makers of a later age-Kissinger believes that legislative bodies, bureaucracies, and run-of-the-mill citizenries all lack the training and temperament that are needed in the diplomatic field. He is only slightly less moved by the academics who parade down to Washington to be with...
...pathos in his position as the dumb mutant whose momentary aspirations only serve to force him lower to the earth. And all the while, Richard Kravitz, playing the jester Trinculo, and W. C. Fuller as the drunken Stephano, contributed a number of nice comic bits without, thankfully, appearing to strain for the laughs...
...products of wistful affection. They reflect the same gee-whiz obsession with glamour and stardom that led Warhol to create the legendary, shifting entourage of drag queens, raucous juvenile models and human parrot fish who, entering a room in a cloud of sequins and patchouli, take the strain of flamboyancy off the Master's back. Warhol's id vanishes behind his circus as his ego does behind his paintings...
...Neither strain of the movement, it seems, is enough. If our task is to combine the peacefulness and love of the passive resister with the activism of the militants, we have a long...