Word: undertow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explore their plight, Time Correspondent Jon D. Hull took up residence on the streets of Philadelphia. Some of the people he met, like a former construction worker named George, are still struggling to find a way up. Others, like a former machinist named Gary, seem hopelessly caught in the undertow. Many once led normal lives, with jobs and families and homes...
...steadily shifted until, by 1980, the average Black family income of the entering freshman student approached the national average in a nation with vast and increasing racial inequality of income. You would think that Harvard would be more concerned with diversity of leadership than with kowtowing to dominant conservative undertow--if you were unfamiliar with Harvard. Concerned students, faculty, and alums at this and other educational institutions should come together to rectify this situation...
...from the window of a car that is moving too fast in the passing lane. Simple, direct, traditional, without the calculated callowness of retro rock. Despite the modest claims of Neumann and Llanas, the echoes of the BoDeans' music cut past the surface calm. These tunes have a strong undertow...
...professionals including a historian, an ethnographer and a Bible student. Because the daily reports could have been read by Nazi authorities, they are necessarily devoid of comments about jackboot cruelty or speculations about the neighboring death camp of Chelmno, less than an hour's drive away. But an undertow of agony tugs at the facts. That road, praised as "a monument to the ghetto's vitality," leads to a cemetery where more than 43,000 inmates, many of them children, will end their stay. Potato peels are a prized dinner item. Notes of suicides bracket a "highly successful...
David never recovered. There was a profound emotional undertow in his life, and his father was not there to help him. If he found being a Kennedy difficult before, with all of the competition and crushing expectations, he now saw the price that his father had paid, that they all had paid, for that identity, and his soul seems to have recoiled from what he was. David began experimenting with drugs not too long after the assassination. In a new book that Ted Kennedy's press secretary has bitterly denounced, Authors Peter Collier and David Horowitz offer a procession...