Word: cours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Wolfe touches on space-race politics and the psychology of cour age, his views are neither unconventional nor meant to be. As our finest verbal illustrator of trends and fashions, he is interested in the truths that lie on surfaces. These truths are not superficial, though they are frequently overlooked in an age partial to overexplanations and psychic temperature taking. A 19th century novelist of manners would have understood perfectly. Readers in the 21st century will too, when they turn to Wolfe to find out the kind of stuff their grandparents were made of. - R.Z. Sheppard...
Critics of rent control like Walter J. Sullivan say flatly, "rent control is ruining cour city" by keeping the tax base low. Sullivan said last week the tax rate could be even lower and that rent control hurts landlords while supporting the students and faculty who can afford to pay higher rents...
...experts, of cour se, were still vital to our story. Moments after the cover was scheduled, New York Correspondent John Tompkins got a call from C. Jackson Grayson Jr., an old friend who had headed Richard Nixon's Price Commission and is now helping to plan President Ford's upcoming economic summit. Says Tompkins, who worked for Grayson while on leave from TIME in 1972: "It was serendipity-my first interview came completely unsolicited." In Washington, National Economics Correspondent John Berry put in a breathless week shuttling among meetings with various Administration advisers and policymakers. "Mine...
...18th-gay centuries. But the dirt had blacked out the shaded tones. When we washed them the colors reappeared. One day when I was Minister of Culture, General de Gaulle asked me how the cleaning was coming along. 'Famously,' I replied. 'Let me show you the Cour Carrée of the Louvre.' We stood in the middle of the courtyard. Half of it was grimy black, the other half a gleaming white. The general looked back and forth and then let out a loud whistle. It was the only time I ever heard General...
FRANCE Boondoggler's Bible "Stuck in the back of his palace," Napoleon once remarked, "the Emperor can know only what people care to tell him. The Cour des Comptes will keep him informed." To check up on financial high jinks and bureaucratic boon-dogglery in his empire, Bonaparte in 1807 revived the medieval accounting court that had been abolished during the revolution...