Word: uplifter
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Spiritual Uplift. The movie, which is inveterately confusing, has to do with Jonathan E. bucking the corporate biggies and refusing to retire on command. Director Norman Jewison (Jesus Christ Superstar) and Screenwriter William Harrison champion nonconformity and the glories of individuality against a faceless state as zealously as if they had just discovered these notions writ large on a fiery tablet. Only those for whom these ideas are also a revelation will appreciate the cautions that are strewn throughout the film like pennants waving in the cheap seats...
Former Cy Young winner Steve Carlton leads the pitching corps, with Jim Lonborg and Wayne Twitchell in support, comprising a steady starting rotation. The Phillies may receive a needed uplift to their offense if Dick Allen can be procured from Atlanta...
...status. In the direction NSCAR is heading--estranged from the black community as a whole--there is an implicit rejection of the black past. It is taken for granted that the black experience will rise to the level of the white experience, that white politics and white philosophy will uplift the black man. But until the integrity of the black community is recognized, the fight against racism can't really start...
...Troupe evidently treats Chinese art more generously: a folk singer sang a sad song about a river flowing, and explained that although it provided no revolutionary uplift it expressed the sadness working people had often felt in the past. But the musician insisted that modern Chinese ballets should never end sadly, for fear of depressing the workers and peasants and so working against their enthusiasm and interests...
...most of the economists, the Ford Administration's economic program offered little uplift. In general, they applauded Ford's recommendations for, among other things, increasing investment capital and food supplies. But the majority dismissed the program as no more than a tiny first step at best, lacking force to arrest inflation, curb unemployment, stimulate growth and promote recovery. David L. Grove, chief economist of IBM, characterized the program as tepid orthodoxy, more of "the oldtime religion with special dispensation for the poor...