Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday Nation wrote sarcastically about Bokassa's "clowning glory." Zambia's Daily Mail deplored the new Emperor's "obnoxious excesses." Bokassa was unfazed by such criticism, since he knows full well that others will end up paying for his little ceremony. The Emperor will accept aid money from anyone, and currently receives it from South Africa, China and the Soviet Union. The bulk of the largesse, however, comes from France, which obligingly covers the C.A.E.'s deficits. Like an indulgent parent with a wastrel son, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing quietly passed the word...
...roll is connected to personality. The low scorers ("zeros" and "ones") tend to stress thinking over feeling and are wary, critical folk who love to control people and implement plans. The highly hypnotizable "fours" and "fives" generally feel rather than think. Though they can be very creative, they uncritically accept ideas, trends and leaders, and are strikingly childlike and gullible-in short, wide-eyed...
...food processor is one who must feed a dozen lumberjacks three times a day. Others say they actively enjoy chopping and slicing. But James Beard, an early convert to the processor-and co-editor of a recipe book distributed with the Cuisinart-scoffs at "kitchen snobs who will not accept modern technological perfections. I'm perfectly certain were Escoffier or Montagne alive today, they would be happy to use a food processor." Indeed, many serious cooks say that short of a Bocuse in a bottle, the best friend they have is a processor...
...from being the loudmouth he plays in Kotter, Travolta has plotted his career with the calculating precision of a corporate accountant. He refuses to accept any more Barbarino parts because they would mean a "horizontal" rather than a vertical movement. He has also stopped doing lucrative promotional tours as Vinnie. "It's so easy to keep your integrity if you put your mind to it," he says. "It's as simple as saying no." It is especially simple, he might have added, if your income is, like his, half a million a year...
...results to be set down in a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article. Plimpton found a trainer named George Brown. "I had been introduced to him by Ernest Hemingway, who always spoke of him with highest regard-as a boxer who could have been a champion if he had been able to accept the idea that he was going to be hit once in a while...