Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...museum's new director, throws himself into an exhibit just hung for a course in 18th-century French art. He stalks backwards, arms out-flung, palms raised, beckoning. "Look at this picture," he commands, his bulging, saucer eyes electric under the flu's rheumy glaze. "It's a wreck, a total wreck. But I think some of its qualities can still be appreciated, that I can help in our teaching." Slive is right. The canvas is a patchwork of flaking paint, but it's still--well--pleasing...
...wreck of the Rock Island is just the latest sign of growing trouble on the U.S. rails and the failure of the Government to produce a rational rail policy for the nation. An ICC staff estimate predicts that the industry's first-quarter loss will be "worse than has ever before occurred, even during the Great Depression of the 1930s." No fewer than eight Northeast roads are in bankruptcy. And the Department of Transportation's new Secretary, William Coleman Jr., cautions: "It would be foolish simply to subsidize the rails. I think 20% of the nation...
...offered a teaching post at one of Manhattan's melting-pot universities (in 1972 Burgess lectured at the City College of New York). In Enderby's case, the film is no Clockwork Orange but a salacious travesty of Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland...
...Love. Enderby's position is too cleverly undermined by irony, too mined with paradox, to prevail. In The Wreck of the Deutschland (the poem, not the flick), one of the nuns at the moment of her death "christens her wild worst Best," just as Hopkins himself struggled a lifetime to confirm precisely in private pain and worldy rebuff some clear sign of God's forgiving love. Enderby attempts to perform the same sort of personal miracle. Desperately he tries to see the cruelty, vulgarity and violence not as correctable aberrations but as signs that man is still free...
...unusual evening encounter with the Banking Committee, Burns wagged his finger in rebuke as he declared that Reuss's bills would "undermine our market system and wreck chances for an economic recovery." Lowering interest rates at a faster pace than the Fed has set, argued Burns, would lead to an "explosive" expansion of money and credit and fire up inflation. Burns also said that he was not aware of any shortage of funds available to credit-worthy borrowers. He apparently made a persuasive case, since Reuss backed down, withdrew his bills, and accepted a largely meaningless compromise. The committee...