Word: uncommonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What makes this production especially disappointing is that Kinky Friedman is an artist of uncommon talents, with a creative mind and an emotional range lacking any precedent in country music. His position as country's only Jewish performer, balanced by his thorough familiarity with the roots of country music, makes him potentially invaluable as an imaginative and broadening influence on the industry. But his potential is far from fulfilled in this album, as he doubtless knows. Maybe that's why the jacket shows him burying his face in his hands. At least he has a sense of shame...
George S. Santayana, Class of 1886, was to live in conditions not much better than this for his entire four years at Harvard. His situation was not uncommon for a significant portion of Harvard undergraduates at that time. They ate, drank, slept and studied cheaply...
...recession and a recent slowing of membership growth have forced "significant cuts in A.C.L.U. operations." But Neier remains optimistic and determined "to press awfully hard just to get what we can this year. We are not likely to have such a good shot for a long, long time." His uncommon confidence is only partly based on past success. Neier believes that one central fact brightens the short-term prospect. Richard Nixon's resignation, says the organization's new annual report, shifts the balance in favor of civil liberties...
...anticipate Robert Motherwell. Although Dove could fall to an almost barbaric level of buckeye clumsiness when off form (as this faithfully assembled show abundantly proves), the best of his work survives not as prediction but as experience. The dogged probity and sensuality of his reactions to nature were uncommon in advanced art; yet it was Dove, more than any other early abstract artist, who set what would become a motive of American painting down to the present day: the constant intrusion of epic landscape as the armature, the secret image, of abstract art. Robert Hughes
...women. So long as the psychosis remains benign, it is not discovered and poses no problem for anyone; one night, though, the boy, Alan Strang, blinds six of the horses he has been working with at a stable in rural England. The local magistrate, a woman of uncommon compassion but complacent confidence in official definitions of sanity, places him in the hands of a psychiatrist, Martin Dysart. The boy's "cure" is the center of the play--seeing it happen creates enormous dramatical excitement, and second thoughts about whether it is a cure worse than the disease are the legacy...