Word: monolithism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GRADUATE finally finds himself on a beach. While he sits silently watching, an army of black-cloaked crusaders rides across the beach to destroy Mother Nature's last stand--a 2001-type monolith which, in this case, is a wooden post. But what can the poor boy do? Why, he just takes out a syringe and shoots up. Society has destroyed its middle-class child, and an insight often stated in a well-written paragraph has been clumsily transformed into an atrocious two-hour film...
...they had best not gaze up the 60 stories of the Hancock Building unless they prepare themselves for an aesthetic shock. For hovering above Copley Square--one of Boston's most pleasant sections--is the unfinished checkered Hancock monolith...
...part of the evening, stage center was occupied by a 33-ft. glass prism that drank in the light, threw it back out kaleidoscopically, and seemed to be imitating the mystery-of-the-universe monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A troupe of ballet dancers suddenly materialized to writhe to Pierre Henry's electronic sound track, which was often so loud that the management had to provide cotton balls for the ears of the audience...
...learned that you get black votes the way you get white votes, by knocking on doors and speaking at meetings about things people are interested in. The idea that the black vote is a monolith that can be delivered by a few leaders isn't true now, if it ever was. For example, we had the endorsement of Charles Evers, and we had many blacks working actively in the campaign. Yet we didn't carry Jefferson County, Ever's home. We were confident his endorsement would carry it for us, and we didn't work there. In the end, that...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation likes to present itself to the public as a well-oiled crime-fighting monolith that functions without so much as a ping. If that image was never entirely accurate in J. Edgar Hoover's day, it is even less true now under the bureau's acting director, L. Patrick Gray...