Word: turmoil
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...expressionist, he was one of the last children of Rousseau, and he idealized the noble savage within himself. That this savage was the cultural artifact of the middle classes whose values he longed to escape was no mean irony. Kokoschka's shenanigans failed to throw the burghers into the turmoil he hoped for, but they made an indelible impression on his friends, a circle that included the satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos and a galaxy of painters from Gustav Klimt to Wassily Kandinsky. His most eccentric episode was that of the doll. In the spring...
...been popular so long as Mexico prospered. At present, however, the country is far from prosperous: its foreign debt will soon top $100 billion, and last winter's plunge in oil prices stripped the government of a third of its projected annual foreign exchange of $24.5 billion. The economic turmoil has put unprecedented pressure on the political system. Thus Mexicans and foreigners alike were paying close attention to last week's elections in Chihuahua, the country's largest state, where the conservative opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) enjoys a considerable following. At issue: whether the P.R.I. would maintain its stranglehold...
...Shakespearean drama, both tragic and comic, the storms and calamities that shake the sublunary globe are reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men. So too, when the state of nature is disordered, do they often portend the same upset in the nature of the state. It therefore seemed a distinctly Shakespearean augury when Typhoon Gading drowned Manila in torrential rains last week, sending coconut trees swaying wildly in the wind and plunging much of the city deep into darkness. For in recent weeks, tremors and uncertainties have had all of Philippine politics listing between tragedy and comedy, swept...
Before we descend into a quicksand of depression and despondency, however, we do well to remember that although both Harvard's and the Statue's birthdays may have occured at times of trouble--the turmoil of the Continental Congress, the Post-Reconstruction birth pangs of a reconstituted nation, and the eve of World War II--the greatest moments in the lives of the Statue and the College were always on the heels of these birthdays or just over the horizon...
Even through the past two years of turmoil in South Africa, the Reagan Administration has firmly stuck to its policy of "constructive engagement," under which it hopes to nudge Pretoria toward a peaceful end to apartheid by means of "persuasion and pressure." The policy was fashioned by Chester Crocker, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, who continues to be the Administration's troubleshooter for the region...