Word: veerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the new elite yammer in plenary session and show off their fountain pens, the new nation's problems veer out of control. There is a rising class of paper shufflers, a groundswell of expectant unemployed, a shortage of skilled labor, a trade union movement that demands more and more at a time when the country needs sacrifices, and roving bands of young thugs and looters. The inevitable result is violence and a wave of bloodshed that finally and fatally engulfs Bray on a lonely up-country road...
...myths, legends and folk tales, with a limited use of words. Sills, a co-founder of Chicago's Second City Company, calls it "ways of speaking with your body." In this production, largely drawn from Grimm's fairy tales, the stories follow a straight narrative line, but veer off at every other moment into uproarious lunatic humor and fancy...
...atmosphere, the highly combustible bits of asphalt that they have picked up ignite from frictional heat; the asphalt burns so rapidly and creates such great temperatures that the heat shields on the ICBMs are all but consumed. Then the missiles either burn up or are so deformed that they veer off course. U.S. officials say that no heat shield now in existence could survive the fiery ride through an asphalt cloud...
...tank. Inside each pod are three canisters containing "noisemakers," or jammers, that radiate electromagnetic waves in the same frequencies used by the acquisition, tracking and terminal guidance systems* of an oncoming missile. When the ECM is turned on, the "noise" disrupts the missile's systems, causing it to veer away...
...analysis is not uniformly sound, and from time to time the authors veer into simple-mindedness when discussing the motives of SDS or the malaise of the moderates. Those incidents are not overwhelming. however, and the book's basic merit outweighs them...