Word: parkinsonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Father James G. Keller, 76, Roman Catholic missionary priest who founded the Christophers, a loose-knit ecumenical movement devoted to individual action and the credo that it is "better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"; of complications arising from Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Keller preached his gospel in more than a dozen books, a TV show and a movie, You Can Change the World...
...plagued the Fore tribe of New Guinea. The agent responsible: a previously unknown kind of cell invader, dubbed a "slow virus"-in this case, transmitted, during cannibalistic rites. Such viruses incubate in the body for years, may be linked to other severe diseases of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), and perhaps play a role in aging...
...Bliss's style is terse, occasionally leavened by anecdote. Unlike C. Northcote Parkinson and Laurence J. Peter, Bliss's purpose is not amusing originality but utility. He is serious. He refers to his readers directly as "you." He has some sympathy for time wasted, but not much. After all, it's your life that is slipping away so irretrievably...
...approximately 11:45 a.m., after a private meeting in Massachusetts Hall, Fraser, Bok and Nicholas Parkinson, the Australian ambassador to the United States, will walk across the old yard to University Hall...
...wrote, "Did you really read this?" on all Xerox copies produced at the firm, and requested that they be returned with an answer. More than half came back marked "no." Even the people who make copies no longer find it necessary always to read them first. Watergate Defendant Kenneth Parkinson successfully argued that he had hot read a particular incriminating document; he had merely Xeroxed it. The photocopier has made many Americans too lazy to copy documents by hand, to use carbon paper, to express something in their own words, to read -perhaps too lazy to think...