Word: locus
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Well said, Sam. Belly may have become a derogatory word in modern times, but Johnson properly viewed it as the locus and focus of gustatory enjoyment and sensual wellbeing. Still, Johnson was at a beggar's banquet compared with the modern diner's choice of delectations: ingredients, recipes and techniques from the kitchens of the world. Not least of these blessings, to a Johnsonian, is the cornucopia of culinary literature. A good cookbook is a perpetual feast, and this year's table is well laden...
...office smells of Americana. Sedate, sterile, wooden--the white church in the middle of Medford Square conjures up the archetypes of old New England. What isn't dark or neutral is flag-colored, like the fife-and-drum wallpaper that peels at its yellowed seams. A red telephone, the locus, sits ominously on the pastor's oaken desk. When it rings, the sound is shrill, urgent, like the Oval Office hot line or the Batphone. But to Pastor Tom Michael, the caller on the other end transcends Zbigniew Brzezinski or Commissioner Gordon. For when the enemy is sin, each call...
Greater concern for teaching will yield considerable side benefits as well. If the classroom and not just the lecture hall becomes a locus of learning, papers and class participation could determine a more substantial portion of the student's final grade. The whims of anonymous final exam-graders and the vicissitudes of test-taking would have less sway over the undergraduate; grades as a whole would better indicate his performance in the course. Because more students take make-up exams in courses where the final weighs heavily in the semester grade, as reported to the Faculty 18 months...
...more than a decade, the pleasant Minnesota community of Silver Bay (pop. 3,500) on the western shore of Lake Superior was the locus of an epic environmental battle. At issue was the Reserve Mining Co.'s taconite plant, whose construction in 1952 had created the town. About 80% of the local labor force is employed at the $350 million facility, which turns trainloads of the flinty rock mined in the Mesabi Range into about 15% of the nation's iron ore supply. But Reserve also dumped 67,000 tons of tailings a day into the world...