Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than two decades, enabling Washington to maintain its key air and naval bases in Spain, for which a new five-year accord has just been negotiated. No one, however, could possibly welcome a peaceful transition more than the Spaniards themselves. With memories and tales of Civil War horrors still vivid and haunting, there is nothing more feared by Spaniards-except for the terrorists-than a renewal of that fratricidal bloodletting...
...founders foresaw and feared-but did not have to cope with-metropolis, the breeder of anonymity and anomie (the lack of purpose and values). They had the urgency that comes with vivid and widely shared causes. Military enemies first pushed them together and then, in order to "form a more perfeet Union," they had to summon moral energies for even more demanding tasks. Many decades later, slavery at home and then Nazism abroad occasioned similar summonings. Today, in contrast, frustrations arising from various foreign and domestic setbacks, the failure of some good intentions on New Frontiers and in Great Societies...
...Vivid if not yet widely shared causes go neglected but beckon urgently again: hunger, political reform, environmental issues, inequalities and injustices, economic traumas. The "decline of absolutes" itself is often merely the result of pluralism. "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a pluralistic land?" asked Ethicist Paul Ramsey. Pluralism, the sense that "any number can play," whether in religion or ways of life, will not go away. Father John Courtney Murray called it "the human condition." Every day in every way we are aware that "your" and "my" absolutes sometimes clash. Antiabortionists and pro-abortionists...
...think we set out to prove any majestic point," Karl says. "We thought it was just a fascinating topic, told by fascinating people, that if each of these people told a true, vivid story, that inadvertently, accidentally, what they said might be some kind of commentary on who the hell we are. But we didn't set out with any noble purpose--it's not a sociological study...
...strengths of Brother Can You Spare A Dime? lie in the director's creation of a vivid image of a decade characterized by uncertainty and despair, a decade brightened only by America trust in Roosevelt as a paternal cult figure and by the refreshingly lighthearted fantasies of Hollywood. Disorder and confusion are starkly represented in scenes depicting violent strikes at a Ford Motor Company plant, a Communist rally in New York, a Ku Klux Klan gathering and MacArthur's dispersal of the Bonus Army's Washington gathering in the waning days of the Hoover Administration...