Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made in the decades following World War II. Today, self-proclaimed socialists of one variety or another rule 53 of the world's sovereign states, controlling 39% of its territory and 42% of its population. Such numbers alone can be misleading, for societies calling themselves socialist include Western-style democracies and repressive Communist dictatorships, constitutional republics and hereditary monarchies. Socialism is a flag of convenience that accommodates technocrats and market-minded economists, that allows fascist-type dictators or small-time Bonapartes to perpetuate themselves in power. It is politically chic to use the socialist label. Observes French Political Philosopher Raymond...
...while President Leonid Brezhnev makes an estimated 2,900 rubles ($4,150). These are mere pittances compared with the $250,000 annual salaries of Jimmy Carter and the chief executive officer of the average large U.S. corporation. But because Marxist-Leninist societies are short of goods, a comfortable life-style depends less on money than on privileged access to scarce materials and services. In capitalist or mixed economies, by contrast, money usually provides access to luxury...
Horn says he does not oppose ISKCON, but believes many of the devotees are in the movement superficially, stopping at ISKCON momentarily as they jump from one faith to another in our country's "cafeteria style" religious culture...
...jazz guitarist. He revolutionized guitar technique. He had lost two left-hand fingers early in his life. This handicap led him to invent new ways of playing and resulted in new sounds, new progressions, and new rhythms. Grapelli's swinging, raggy violin worked well with Reinhardt's rhythmic guitar style. The two were a smash hit throughout Europe. They played Le Hot Club together for years before either of them came to this country to perform...
...rest of the cast does the job with style, helped along by Clarissa Bushman's effective choreography in the big numbers like "Company" and "Side by Side by Side," and by David Moore's split-level set, complete with one area for each couple. Everything--the costumes, the set, the backdrop--is done in early-'70s eclectic, but it works, save for a few stylized, overly cute New-York-skyline flats...