Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vice presidency of Hubert Humphrey. Sharing authority, or even listening to Humphrey, was not Johnson's notion of how things were supposed to work. Once he suggested that all Humphrey had to do was sit in his office and wait for orders, needing only a woman to answer the phone and a cedar pencil with an eraser...
...Philippine government is likely to step up its fight against Moslem rebels (supplied in part by arms from Libya) on the Sulu Islands and Mindanao. The Moslems of these regions demand greater autonomy, but Manila's answer is to send in more troops. Fatalities in the past year have been running as high as 200 per month...
...Wrong Answers. The Cupertino program is part of an experiment designed by Educational Consultant Wallace Judd, which involves 1,400 students in 14 junior highs in four cities from Harrisburg, Pa., to San Francisco. Judd stresses that students in the program must be able to formulate a problem before they go to work on a calculator. "A calculator won't give you a wrong answer to a computation," says Judd, but it will give you a wrong answer if the problem is set up incorrectly...
Without waiting for an answer, he and his fellow conspirators proceed to annihilate a classic. The epic adventures are turned into a few friezes reminiscent of a sixth grade pageant: Polyphemus, the Cyclops, bears a strong resemblance to a Sesame Street Muppet; Telemachus (Russ Thacker) might have escaped from a G-rated Disney film. The celebrated dancing and fighting is reduced to a series of galvanic gestures and deafening groans. The groans may be distinguished from the songs easily: the songs have words. Those lyrics, which act upon the mind like nepenthe, are also by Segal, a classics scholar...
...down opposing ranks like "a line of reapers formed, who cut a swath/ in barley or wheat." Death spreads across the pages like a pool of ink-"numbing darkness," "unending night." Awesome griefs are recorded. Hair gets torn, ashes smeared. But when a mourning fast is proposed, the answer is: "So many die, so often, every day,/ when would soldiers come to an end of fasting...