Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there on surgery's cutting edge, as it were, everyone is potentially Dr. Victor Frankenstein, M.D. For, as the movies nearly always have it, there comes a time in every eminent croaker's career when chimpanzees just won't do experimentally and the advancement of science requires a little (strictly idealistic) body snatching...
Americans with experience in China assume the national leaders do know what kinds of sales are being made even if they are not aware of the details of each transaction. "China is chasing bucks," says John Frankenstein, a former U.S. diplomat teaching at the University of Hong Kong, "and people will do anything to make a buck. It's all about that anything-goes mentality that exists in China...
ECONOMISTS AND CORPORATE EXECUTIVES ARE NOT USUALLY thought of as disciples of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. But they too have created a monster, and it has suddenly found a voice--not Boris Karloff's this time, but Pat Buchanan's. In his strident demands for trade protection can be heard the long-mute anger of workers who feel both injured and insulted by free traders in the academy, business and politics: injured by the loss of jobs and income to foreign competition; insulted because too many free traders have airily dismissed their pain as either illusory or inconsequential...
...less than prolific with ideas about how to help the losers. The lead idea is retraining, but it would have to be conducted on a scale difficult to finance at a time of pinched federal budgets. The alternative, however, might be a protectionist spirit that keeps reviving, just as Frankenstein's monster kept coming back in movie sequel after sequel...
...Internet is our Frankenstein: it is the product of our own hands, yet we are unsure of how and whether we can control it. It fascinates us, simultaneously awing and frightening us with its tremendous power. It heralds a new age of information and allows virtually unrestrained communication. But will it, if unregulated, destroy our values...