Word: glitters
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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WHETHER God is dead or not, his angels seem to be. The angel in 1970 is mere commercial décor-a mothlike doll with pink wings and a smirk of good cheer, dangling amid the glitter balls on a thousand plastic Yule trees or twanging its polystyrene harp in the window of a Brooklyn store. In fact, Christmas is about the only area of our culture in which angels survive at all. An archangel, Gabriel, told the Virgin Mary that she would bear the son of God; it was an angel (progenitor of a billion Christmas cards) who appeared...
Polish planners realize that they must increase private incentive throughout the entire economy. Despite the glitter of the major cities, much of Poland reflects Socialism's noncaring dinginess. Mondays remain meatless. Long queues of shoppers extend from stores when supplies of scarce fruit and butter arrive. Salaries are low. The average worker earns only $75 per month, and though rents are low, housing space is cramped...
From the air, Saigon appears to shimmer in the midday sunshine. The light dances off mile after mile of tin-roof shacks, and reflects from the waters of serpentine rivers. On the ground, unfortunately, the city has lost its glitter. Though it remained gracious and unhurried until four or five years ago, reports TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark, Saigon now suffers from the ills that afflict modern cities-and then some. No fewer than 894,000 vehicles, ranging from Lambrettas to lumbering trucks, jam the city's streets. Their fumes engulf Saigon in a noxious blue haze that is killing...
Chillingly Sexless. The play also is vivified by the extraordinary performance in the title role of Alvin Epstein, one of the Yale Repertory directors. He hates. His eyes glitter with refrigerated rage at everyone, including himself. In an elegant, Hamletesque black doublet, his body is rigid with a tension that can never find release-even in the contemptuous dalliances that occupy his time. He talks constantly of his freedom, but he is incapable of breaking through into the real, accepting freedom of love. His only power is to destroy whatever he can touch-the innocent troth of a country girl...
...Fading Glitter. Another important factor in Wilson's decision to call elections may well have been that current economic cheeriness may ebb by fall, particularly if Wall Street continues to behave so badly. Inevitably, price increases will follow those glittering wage hikes. April cost-of-living figures, released last week, showed a 2% rise, sharpest for any month in two years. Retail price increases this year will run about 7%. Unemployment, at 2.5% as of last week, is the highest for any May since 1940. In addition, there was the prospect that renewed troubles this summer in Northern Ireland...