Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect that humanism had on angels (in art, at least) was to stress what the creatures had in common with man. Before angels slid down the ramp of sentimentality at whose bottom they now lie, a perfect balance between their human and spiritual aspects was achieved by, among others, Giotto. The dead Christ was a sight to make angels weep, and in his fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Giotto summed up all its terrible pathos in the little angels that tumble like shot birds...
...Image. In Washington, Dayan will re-emphasize the points made in Mrs. Meir's letter, but he will also stress his own controversial disengagement plan. Dayan has called for Israel to withdraw its armor and artillery and Egypt its missiles and guns to 18 miles from the banks of the Suez Canal. Egypt would then be free to reopen the canal for shipping and return half a million refugees who fled from their imperiled homes along the canal during the bitter fighting before the ceasefire. For Egypt, the idea would mean canal revenues and restored prestige. For Israel...
Eastern Advantage. For all that, the huge (6 ft. 7 in., 285 lbs.) Morton is not without defenders. They stress that he is an Easterner. Traditionally, Interior has gone to Westerners, who tend to be under intense home-state pressure to develop natural resources, not conserve them. In theory, Easterners can escape that pressure...
Ruckelshaus says bluntly that the Nixon Administration's stress on "jawboning" has failed to reform air polluters, not a single one of whom the Government has yet sued. He does not intend to "launch a big accusatory tirade" against industry. But he has made it clear that the era of delay is over. He even welcomes help from "public-interest" law firms, which the Internal Revenue Service ruled last week can retain their tax-exempt status. The Ruckelshaus appointment requires Senate confirmation; so far, no opposition is expected...
From the first, kids treated Sesame Street like the yellow brick road. Its heavy stress of cooperation over competition, its amalgam of the wholly familiar and the totally exotic were irresistible. It was only grownups who expressed doubts. And who could blame them? For openers, the Street looks as if a toy truck had overturned in Harlem. There is no Disneyesque nostalgia for the inaccessible past. The place is in the unavoidable present; the clothing of the cast is well worn, the umber colors and grit of inner-city life are vital components of the show. Some other main ingredients...