Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the city's designation by Herb Caen--whether based on alliteration or resemblance--as some twin of Baghdad made me think what a contrast the real Baghdad would make: war-torn, military in the streets, the sounds of commerce subdued and conviviality scarce. Occasionally an American warplane must skirt by, but the pervading reality must be silence, for what else could be the sound of a people abandoned...
...leaders are voicing more conservative views than ever before, and they are not views shared by most of their civilian counterparts. The majority of today?s military identifies itself as Republican, believes that prayer should be permitted in public schools and thinks military leaders share the values of the American people. This sparks some concern: Will a conservative, vocal military emerge as a new political force...
...leisure market, racquet sales have been in a decade-long decline. This year sales could climb 5%, which is in some measure attributable to the ability of a Swedish turnaround artist to persuade the Austrian government's tobacco monopoly to sell him a sporting-goods company created by an American entrepreneur...
Sources--Good News: New England Journal of Medicine (8/26/99), American Journal of Psychiatry (8/99); Bad News: (1 & 2) Journal of the American Medical Association (8/25/99...
...death is an exclamation point that ends an era. In 1958 I walked into 4 East 77th Street, New York City. A slight man in his 40s was hanging paintings in a 23-ft. by 24-ft. room. This room became the showcase for a number of young, bold American artists. I, a former billboard painter, was one of them. Leo brought an Old World appreciation, but an understanding of the American spirit, to New York City and the world. In the late '50s and '60s, with his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, he discovered Rauschenberg, Johns, Stella, Lichtenstein, Bontecou...