Word: unknown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...theme in literature, this series of action and reaction has certainly racked up one of the largest mileages. From the Book of Genesis and the Odyssey, to Romeo and Juliet and The Scarlet Letter, authors have been rascinated by the troubles people bring upon themselves when they reach for unknown wonders. But relating this theme to more substantial matter particularly history has never been easy, and indeed one must look hard for good examples...
Throughout the play, Swados's somewhat pushy poignancy and simplistic sociology cuts in like so many unruly school kids in the lunch line. She relays her statements less heavy-handedly in a song like "The Undiscovered Son," a comic and lonely fantasy about being the unknown child of various famous and pseudo-famous people. As Eddie, Jay Winthrop sings well and does a fine job of fusing the hope and resiliency so vital to a runaway's survival...
...Unknown to the public, these liberals are presently eating crow. Chances are they may soon be eating vast amounts of crow. The Star Wars idea, it seems, far from being lunatic, gives every indication of being the most brilliant negotiating ploy of the decade. And, even failing that, it could conceivably become a device to save tens of millions of American lives. It all depends how Reagan decides to proceed...
...memorial has become a totem, so much so that its tiniest imperfections make news. Last fall somebody noticed a few minute cracks at the seams between several of the granite panels. The cause of the hairlines is still unknown, and the builders are a little worried...
...mountain climbers or hot-dog skiers, says Farley, all are driven by temperament, and perhaps biology, to a life of constant stimulation and risk taking. Both the socially useful and the socially appalling Type Ts, he says, "are rejecting the strictures, the laws, the regulations--they are pursuing the unknown, the uncertain...