Word: luce
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people who will be at the party in spirit only are Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, who started this magazine in March 1923. It goes without saying that Hadden and Luce were enormously smart and able. What is rarely said is that at that moment 75 years ago, they were so very young. That's what surprises--and inspires--me about them: their youth. On the date of Vol. I, No. 1, Hadden was 25 and Luce 24. As they assembled their 32-page magazine in offices at 9 East 40th Street--their equivalent, you might say, of the garage...
Like the ideas that dominate the cyberindustry today, TIME was never about information per se. It was about organizing it in ways that would enable curious people to get to it easily and quickly. Think of TIME as a pioneering version of a Web browser. And think of Luce and Hadden as the world's first cyberstars...
...term floater to designate a sort of utility infielder who moved from section to section as a replacement writer. The magazine was still rigidly divided into such sections as Education or Sport or Press--a method of organizing the week's news that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce had invented roughly 40 years before. In the jacket copy of my novel, I'd acknowledged that I was the newsmagazine floater referred to as having tried "to escape an overlong stay in the Religion section by writing 'alleged' in front of any historically questionable religious event...
...Henry Luce was a proponent of the great man theory of history, a belief that individuals, more than the collective forces of society, determine the course of human events. Luce's philosophy manifested itself most clearly on TIME's cover, with its hallmark portraits of people in the news. Over the years TIME has commissioned more and more distinguished artists of the day to portray its cover subjects. The practice has yielded a unique collection of more than 1,800 pieces in a dazzling range of styles and media. Appropriately for this anniversary, 75 of them will go on display...
...Luce's face was white. "Have you any idea what you've done? A basic tradition destroyed...everything I've built...in one gesture...