Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs, the dress - in the billowing shape of the chemise - will be making a curveless comeback this year on the frames of the fashion-conscious. The Loose Look is about to sweep in, complete with low hems, long sleeves and soft, yielding, body-skimming fabrics; the models swirling down the runways of Paris salons had the air of well-dressed and well-heeled extras in a 1930s movie...
Today's technology has unlocked the sea depths, opening a new store of treasures. Oilmen can locate oil, drill and cap wells under the enormous pressures of 700 ft. of water. Mining companies know how to sweep minerals off the cold, abyssal plains 20,000 ft. down...
That thought merged a kind of messianism with Hegelian and Marxian determinism, the idea that vast and blind historical forces sweep across the world's stage without important regard to personalities. But of course that Marxist thought is invalidated by Marxist his tory ? the crucial "heroic" role played by men like Marx himself, and Lenin and Stalin. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that "men have lived who did what no substitute could ever have done; their intervention set history on one path rather than another. If this is so, the old maxim There are no indispensable men' would seem another...
...very few echoes in the curricula of other universities. This renders the Harvard experience that much more distinctive, however, and connects its evaluation that much more closely with that of Gen Ed. The program is hard to duplicate largely because it is hard to find faculty talented enough to sweep over broad interdisciplinary areas of thought all by themselves; even within single disciplines many faculty prefer to cop out of teaching introductory courses, and avoid the challenge of comprehensive generalization...
...what a varied bunch they are. Corea's group, Return to Forever, favors high, light, sugary sonorities and palpitating Latin rhythms. The six-man combo Weather Report, with Shorter on sax, plays with the sweep and sonic power of a full symphony orchestra. Cobham manages to mass his colors with a big-band kind of majesty yet retain the kind of rollicking spontaneity that a Stan Kenton, say, never was able to achieve. Larry Coryell, whose new band, The Eleventh House, plays a tight, virtuosic blend of traditional white rock and jazz, never attended the Davis conservatory...