Word: personics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Life After Youth: Ten Ways of Being and Older Person--Ruth Harrlet Jacobs, professor of Sociology, Boston University; Boston Public Library...
Forsyth could never create a George Smiley, the hero of John Le Carre's series that began with The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. However convoluted his adventures, Smiley provides an anchor for every Le Carre story because he is a real person--a troubled, depressed, aging spy. Forsyth deals in Supermen, plastic men whom we will root for but never really care about as human beings. He came closest in Jackal, with his portrayal of the man who tried to assassinate Charles De Gaulle; he failed outright in his two later novels, The Odessa File, in which...
...meantime the U.S. is portraying a grotesque caricature of human rights and political exile by extending extraordinary assistance to a person who is associated with serious crimes against humanity. Its responses to the embassy seizure are baffling: thousands of students are being hasselled, a number of them are being deported, and there are threats of military intervention and of cut-offs of food supplies...
...these departments the foreman, appointed by the management, has given way to a contact person, elected by the group of workers itself. The contact person keeps track of what the production manager, planners, engineers and buyers are doing. He (or she) informs the group of what is going...
Since 1927, when TIME selected Charles Lindbergh as its first Man of the Year, the basic criterion has remained the same: the distinction goes to the person or group who, as it was stated on this page in 1943, "has done the most to change the news, for better or for worse." There have been designees very plainly in the latter category-Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939)-but selection has never necessarily connoted either the magazine's, or the world's, approval of the subject. Thus the editors had little difficulty naming Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, intransigent leader...