Word: uncommonness
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...world's worsening energy situation is fast becoming the common concern of such uncommon groups as government, industry, environmentalists and private consumers. On critical issues like energy, we believe that TIME'S responsibility goes beyond keeping our readers informed and includes promoting intelligent discussion and action as well. This week's Environment story on the energy crisis, for example, reflects some of the thinking culled from a special conference sponsored by TIME and our sister publications, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. The three-day meeting, held in Nassau last month, brought together political, business and environmental leaders. They...
...role as Rumania's top man, Ceauşescu feels he has a predecessor. His office is dominated by a painting of Michael the Brave, a Walachian prince who briefly united what is present-day Rumania for the first time in 1600. At private gatherings it is not uncommon for the defiantly nationalistic Ceauşescu to break into a folk ballad about Michael's exploits...
From a small party, or a simple unplanned gathering, a 'get-together'; a scene, common in all its intrigues: the signals of one highly evolved life-form trying to communicate with another. Uncommon: this group of people having devised (in lieu of rational and effective precedents) a higher degree of intricate developments; though thousands had trudged the same road before...
...that would "intensify to become an even sharper form of confrontation between the two societies." In practice, Brezhnev's new offensive is essentially defensive. While they court their new trading partners in the West with unwonted cordiality, the East-bloc regimes are cracking down on their own societies with uncommon force...
...difficult to present successfully, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra gave a program principally of Britten, Berg, and Ravel. All three pieces employed a soprano soloist, a role Phyllis Curtin fulfilled with ability equal to any singer here in recent memory. All the mechanics of sound production were displayed with ease uncommon to the student efforts so familiar in Cambridge. Even Curtin's stage presence was a model of professionalism...