Word: glimmering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short on history, but does provide a glimmer of visual originality. Curiosity Shop, a one-hour show aimed at children aged six to eleven, is purportedly devoted to helping children question and deal with ideas. It is peopled with puppets and three children who ask disarming questions. There are animations, films and music. Curiosity Shop is inoffensive and cute, but on the whole trivial. And it is debatable how far a child-or a show-can go with questions like "What would it be like without thumbs...
...Elon tells his disillusioned story, the early Zionists (circa 1882) were "secular rabbis of a new faith of redemption." The founders of modern Israel called themselves olim: pilgrims, "those who ascend." Generally, they were mystics with a "terrible sincerity," an "almost inhuman sense of rectitude," and "not a glimmer of doubt...
Rogers was instrumental in working out last year's cease-fire that stilled the fighting along the Suez Canal. There is a glimmer of hope that he may be able to find another compromise solution this time. Egyptians are frustrated over the lack of progress following President Anwar Sadat's major initiative of three months ago, in which he agreed to recognize Israeli sovereignty in return for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied Egyptian territory. Cairenes last week also were angry that Israel has, in effect, decided to annex the strategic former Egyptian fortification of Sharm...
Nader zipped through a packed schedule, clutching folders and papers, and looking like the soul of seriousness and efficiency. Observing that Japanese exports are the most vulnerable part of the economy, he suggested that mercury-tainted tuna might be "the first glimmer on the horizon" of a new fact: "Japan's pollution problem is being internationalized." and could form "a new kind of nontariff trade barrier...
...ungainly, misshapen provincial lad, marries a girl who is physically repelled by him. Only on his death can she begin to love him. Into The Leper are woven the themes that run through the later books: the subtle corruption of sensuality, the deep self-loathing that accompanies love, the glimmer of salvation when all possibilities of evil are exhausted. To live, Mauriac seems to say, is to sin. Only death, with its brutal clarity, illuminates life. And that light is the one grace vouchsafed mankind...