Word: disproportionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agreed that poor and working people suffer disproportionately from food price increases. Agreed that Harvard is on the explotive side of that disproportion. Agreed that eating several meatless meals a week is not so great a sacrifice. It requires less effort than training to build elementary water systems in Africa, as one student I know is doing, or working in one's home community over a long haul to build a class conscious, worker-led movement, to use another acquaintance as an example. That doesn't mean that every smaller or less politically conscious commitment...
As Watergate and related events emerged in congressional hearings and in the press, many patriotic Americans were nagged by a sense of disproportion. Crookedness and corner cutting? Yes. Crimes? No doubt?but after all, as the phrase went, "No one was killed." How could these acts, however shady or offensive...
Such theater clusters will be able to play different movies for different audiences. Bob Moscow, owner of three Atlanta houses, says: "You've got to have movies with class appeal-to blacks, racists, different age and sex groups." Most moviegoers (74%) are under 30, and blacks also attend films...
The playlet takes place on an idyllic Sunday in an idyllic country town, where strollers shower coins and smiles on the local beggar, and husbands treat their wives with adoring deference. Eventually, in all the town's houses and apartments, everyone sits down to Sunday lunch. One after another...
There is, moreover, a lamentable disproportion between the money deployed on buying art and the money available for preserving masterpieces that cannot, by their nature or circumstances, be sold -unmovable art like buildings, frescoes, or even entire cities of cherishable antique beauty. Only a spectacular disaster like the Florence flood...