Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...very much, and I often thought about living there permanently. One day I mentioned this to a young black soldier. His reply was: "Nothing is happening here. I feel as if I am wasting my time. I have to get back home and help my people." That made me begin to re-evaluate my position. Life was easier in Europe, especially on an American salary, but it can become a real copout...
...were forced to raise the price five cents a copy. She and the paper's two staffers cut their salaries from $80 to $27 a week. "When you've been economically squeezed to a point where you don't have enough to eat," she says, "you begin to think enough is enough. But by that time you're ready to plan the next issue...
...More important, he got the children to express their "secret feelings, their fantasies-turning them on to their imaginations." As he puts it: "There are lots of kids who have never been praised for saying the sky is purple." His first success came when he asked the class to begin each line with the words "I wish . . ." When Koch read their wish poems aloud, the children began waving, blushing, laughing and jumping up and down. Koch recalls: "It was the first time they realized that others had secret feelings...
...barbs, some have been shaken. "We want no curse on us-period," says an electric-power-company executive. Despite such grumbling, no one has legally attacked the cursers. "If any of the corporations concerned wanted to sue us," says one mendicant with a wry smile, "they would have to begin by establishing themselves as the polluters mentioned in our incantations." Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada explains the industrialists' nervousness: "We Japanese all have a tinge of mysticism in our blood and tend to be vulnerable in one way or another to such occultism...
...months audiences will be talking about them. It also accomplishes that rarest achievement, the breathing of life into an ossified art form. The '70s has its first great epic. Blood brother to the 1903 one-reeler, The Great Train Robbery, Little Big Man is the new western to begin all westerns...