Word: thing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...have been destroyed. Mrs. Gandhi has promised about $2,000 compensation to each victim. "I want to express my deep agony over what has happened," she told parliament. "I felt physically sickened when I heard. What are we coming to in this country? That anyone could do such a thing is beyond my comprehension...
...catcher's mitts, are hardly moving at all. Sales have stagnated for photographic equipment and hardware items. Toy sales in general have been weak this year. Concedes Douglas Thomson, president of the Toy Manufacturers of America, which represents about 90% of the industry: "Toys are the last thing to get hit at Christmas because parents take the attitude that kids should get a toy no matter what. Yet most toymakers now feel that they'll be doing well if they can simply break even with last year...
...startling thing about the Lang affair is that he was not purveying pornography, or even mildly racy novels. He was merely introducing his students to the Poetics by Aristotle and The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli as an aid to their study of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Lang, 55, a ten-year teaching veteran, is a man determined to challenge his students, pitted against a school system that wants him to take things easy...
...moral equivalents of Bass Weejuns and button-down shirts. A cynic would say that the culture's manic quest for novelty has simply exhausted some of its adventurously kinky experiments (open marriage, bisexuality, a doctrinaire celibacy, banana smoking and roller disco) and so returned to the Real Thing, temporarily no doubt. It is all transient fashion, the cynic would say, like a return of the '40s look. Jerry Rubin, Yippie leader back in the '60s, turns up now on Wall Street as well-dressed broker. The designer Betsey Johnson, a woman who previously went around with...
...past is not always right, of course, nor the innovator always wrong. The desolate eternalist of Ecclesiastes ("There is no new thing under the sun") should be profoundly boring to anyone under 70. The problem is that values (these days, even elementary skills in how to raise children) vanish into the cracks between generations. Anthropologist Margaret Mead believed ten years ago that the West had entered an age so headlong in its rush toward the future that the old no longer had much of value to teach the young. Well, the future no longer seems quite so wildly original...