Word: monolithism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concession stand brief. The final 20 minutes are positively overwhelming as Kubrick hurls his wayward astronaut through a time warp that makes the color patterns of a kaleidoscope pale by comparison. One warning: don't wast too much time trying to figure out the significance of the monolith and some of the more obscure scenes in 2001; you can save yourself the trouble by reading screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke's book on the film if you are analytically inclined. Better yet, just sit back and space out on the colors...
...Clarke novel superior aliens arriving in the form of a black monolith, the Devil, or a spaceship as big as a planet, would resolve the stalemate, usually by initiating man into a higher consciousness. Overmind--mind without matter--is the highest product of evolution in Clarke's scheme. Such a mind can flit from star to star, experience eternity as a single instant, and generally paint the universe red. (so if you were wondering what that baby floating across the stars at the end of 2001 was all about, now you know...
...they were hardly aiming high. Richard Cannon, HCHP director of development and planning, said the figures were more reasonable expectations than they were difficult goals. But the plan's directors are not to be blamed for aiming low. They want to avoid turning the program into a health care monolith. As Cannon put it, "We don't want to create a McDonald's for medical care." However, if the plan reaches its expected enrollment for 1982, and if no competing plan has emerged in Boston, there will be good reason to worry. Someday HCHP's growth must stop...
...year 1968 was a watershed for Ulster Catholics, when 50 years of oppression--discrimination in the areas of housing, jobs, education and voting rights, legislated by the Protestant Unionist Party monolith--finally gave rise to the Catholic civil rights movement. Hume emerged quickly as a leading spokesman for this non-violent movement. In the first days of January, 1969, the world looked on in horror as a four day-long civil rights march from Belfast to Derry met a massive Protestant attack that left many of the marchers wounded. As the marchers crossed Burntollet Bridge outside Derry, the Protestant...
Charming Autocrat. The shake-up at Black Rock, as the CBS glass-and-granite monolith on Sixth Avenue is known, caught the broadcast industry by surprise-including senior executives at CBS. "This comes as a complete bolt out of the blue," said a corporate spokesman, struggling to explain the changes. What everyone wanted to know was: Why? Why had Taylor been fired after leading CBS to ever greater financial success and presumably having been selected by Paley to succeed him? Why had Backe, who had no experience in broadcasting-the heart of CBS's operations-been chosen...