Word: striped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cajoling, the river only sought to make the road unbend. Meanwhile, the highway dodged back and forth from canyon wall to cliffside, avoiding the river's embrace, grinding grimly and duty-driven as straight and narrow as it could--in short, a coward of a highway with a yellow stripe down the middle of its back, vaulting over danger spots where the river threatened to merge. It was one highway the bulldozers and steamrollers had pounded some morals into; and besides, this was North Carolina, where premarital merging is frowned upon...
American landscape painting languished in the closet until quite recently. The impulse to record the primal shapes of land, vegetation, light, water and sky, enormously important to American art in the 19th century, was tagged throughout the 1960s as regressive, unmodernist, dumb-everything, in fact, that an acrylic stripe on unprimed duck could never be. Photography had taken care of landscape; one could leave it to the National Geographic...
...Summer School Orchestra and Chorus, both directed by Michael Zearott, require auditions, but the standards are not too demanding, and the spectrum of people accepted is fairly wide, according to Julie Montgomery, who handles promotion for the Summer School arts program. Orchestra members generally include all stripe of musician from ardent high schoolers to professional union members anxious not to pass the summer without performing...
...ethical and moral government, he says, but not a government to be run by a monarch or a church. "Every aspect of our democracy comes from these vestigial remnants of that faith," the dean insists. Up until recently, as he sees things, we could take politicians of common stripe and at the moment of inaugural turn them into leaders who could justly be trusted with this moral heritage...
...loveable mode. Ungar seems especially enamoured with the younger agents--members of the "Berrigan 1000" group who were hired after the Fathers Berrigan were accused of plotting to kidnap government officials and blow up buildings. Although we expect these recruits to be of a Young-Americans-for-Freedom stripe, they emerge in Ungar's description as "loose and free-thinking agents" who do not react to events "on the basis of knee-jerk instincts...