Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussion of how women can help themselves, the word "enrich" floats like through an adman's copy on breakfast cereals. A bored housewife can "enrich" her life by volunteering. A woman returning to work can gain valuable experience by volunteering. High school and college students can learn first hand about possible careers. And in a series of chapters strangely reminiscent of "Ask Beth" and her advice to lonely high school freshmen, Loeser recommends volunteering to widows divorcees, new people in town and retired women; and woman, that is, who is lonely and in need of company...
...Hanlon writes, "is a nasty word in Ireland, yet it is difficult to think of a non-socialist economic structure where the government's presence is so pervasive." The government encourages undisciplined stock and real estate speculation. No law prevents politicians from voting on measures that might enrich them. The price of land skyrocketed 2,700% between 1960 and 1973, while the population remained static...
When a cast is racially integrated, it has been the custom of audiences to pretend that nothing has happened, or to infer that the millennium has arrived. Nonsense. A mixture of black and white can sometimes disturb the texture of a play, as in Odyssey. Or it can enrich the work, as it does in Pippin. In Of Mice and Men, it grants the play a fresh resonance. The interdependence of George and Lennie is far more poignant and tragic than in the original. Indeed, it is doubtful whether the play would have been producible in the old style...
...pity. For Caro's fine portrait has a troubling mystery at its heart. Moses' avowed aim was public service. There is no evidence that he tried to enrich himself at public expense. He pursued power to be free to do what he regarded as good works. Caro asserts, and the record seems to bear out, that power eventually became an end in itself. But, a sheer arrogance and the difficulty of getting things done aside, the book never explains...
...opportunities for people to pursue a career primarily oriented toward work abroad in the context of a University structure. Some HIID personnel have been named as institute fellows, who will be able to work as specialists or administrators within HIID while still being able to use the facilities and enrich the research and teaching of the University at large...