Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admits Chicagoan Abra Prentice Wilkin, great- granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. "I didn't earn it." The knowledge can taint even the pleasure of making expensive purchases. The first time Wilkin spent $100 for a pair of shoes, she was so upset she never wore them. And nagging twinges persist. "I still rationalize buying a $3,000 set of sheets," she says. "Well, shoot, why not? You spend a third of your life in bed, and they last." The sheer social inequity of their gilded circumstances gnaws away at some. Declares Paul Haible of San Francisco, who inherited $1 million...
College regulations, multiple satety precautions, and Cambridge traffic--even Boston's icy weather--may deter ordinary bikers, but Harvard's bicyclists persist, riding their bikes around Cambridge in all kinds of traffic and in all kinds of weather...
...strikes and demonstrations have ended, but doubts persist about whether the government is committed to meaningful elections. Aside from the candidates and the U.S. embassy, few expect Haiti's new electoral council to be able to set up a free and fair vote by Nov. 29, the date scheduled for the presidential ballot. "The government certainly would prefer not to have elections," says Emmanuel Ambroise, a member of the council...
...this amiable study of a man and his epoch, Musicologist Edward Jablonski shows why the queries persist on the 50th anniversary of Gershwin's death. George's father, Leatherworker Morris Gershovitz, thought Ira, the oldest of his four children, was the most talented -- until George, nearly two years younger, appropriated the keyboard with an amalgam of brashness and genius. The boy abandoned school at 15 and quickly rose from Manhattan streets to the clamorous offices of song publishers. Sometimes his talent outstripped his ambition. When he auditioned for a job with Irving Berlin, the composer turned him down with some...
...plaintiffs so often persist, and why do juries find for them in cases that judges then throw out? Perhaps because jurors, like much of the rest of the public, think the press needs some restraining. Or perhaps because libel law is simply hard for laymen to grasp. While the target of a tough story may feel that he is the beleaguered party, in libel law he becomes the plaintiff and takes on the legal burden of disproving the offending story. In the conflict of rights between freedom of the press and preservation of reputation, the legal scales are deliberately tipped...