Word: woe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives on the West Bank cannot escape some sort of contact with the Israeli soldiers. For many of us, this is often brutal and dehumanizing. They hassle people at whim. They stop and search cars, sometimes even knocking off the hubcaps. They demand to see identity cards, and woe to that person who has forgotten to carry his with him. After being harassed once, I make certain I have my ID at hand before I even get dressed in the morning...
...deepest American dilemma regarding excellence arises from the nation's very success. The U.S. has been an astonishing phenomenon- excellent among the nations of the world. But as the prophet Amos said, "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion." It is possible to have repose, or to have excellence, but only some decorative hereditary monarchs have managed to simulate both. Success has cost Americans something of their energetic desire...
...audience does thrill to it. Rhetoric though they be, Miller's fiery prophecies of revolution, Reiffel's well-padded complacency and the workers' vignettes of woe create a momentum that overcomes the pragmatic 1980s assumption that "nothing is ever that simple." Director Josh Milton's fine sense of timing and placement melds the difficult mancuvers of lockstep group motion and robot-like dance rhythms to reinforce a visceral feeling of brewing social pressure, of the inevitable coming explosion...
When the Reagan Administration announced its proposed new budget a week ago, students, parents and college administrators sent up a chorus of woe. Despite staggering college costs and shrinking disposable family income, Washington is looking to cut aid to students and universities by more than...
...short term. Reagan plans to submit to Congress next week a status report on fiscal 1982 spending with a bottom line close to $96 billion in the red and a fiscal 1983 budget with an equally dizzying debt. The man who for years attributed almost every economic woe to Government's propensity to spend more than it takes in shrugged off this lapsed faith by saying, "There are too many imponderables for anyone to predict deficits or surpluses several years ahead with any degree of accuracy." Reagan has discovered that it is much harder than he once claimed...