Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickie sociologist is apt to tell us more of his own problems than of ours. Since Solzhenitsyn's life has been unhappily shaped by hard distinctions and persecuting dogma, he is understandably tempted to overvalue those weapons. He has become his own kind of hard dogmatist. He has brought with him the crusade that has cursed the older world. He seeks unity, virtue, morality, uniformity, dignity and - above all - "the right not to know." But these have very little to do with the mixed virtues - the virtues of compromise, decency, self-doubt, experiment - the meandering quest for community that...
...were charged with espionage and put in jail, where they remained last week in default of $2 million bail apiece. They face life imprisonment if convicted. Zinyakin, who has diplomatic immunity, may simply be sent home by the Soviets at the State Department's request. As is apt to happen in the spy business, the three had been doublecrossed by Ed, actually a loyal Navy officer who went along with the Russians to entrap them. His name is being withheld, but he may have to reveal himself when the case goes to court...
...manufactured and as common in some moneyed turf as hogs in a holler. Whereas most toys for the rich look as if they had all come from the same department store, a replicated Duesenberg SSJ or Auburn 866 boat-tail speedster is not something your dentist or psychiatrist is apt to call...
...will be offered a bagful of bargains in air fares−thanks in large part to an unlikely bureaucrat named Alfred Kahn. A lean, balding, hatchet-faced man who teeters back and forth in his high-backed leather chair, Kahn, 60, looks like a restless hawk. The image is apt. In less than a year as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he has outdone any of his predecessors in shooing the airlines out of the cozy hen house of Government supervision that has protected and confined them for 40 years. By opening the door to all-out competition, Kahn...
Fashions have changed in part because women's roles are different. Women of 30 or 35 or 40 or older are apt to be juggling a career and the care of children, often without a husband. They have figured out their lives for themselves. They have style. They are grownups, and they don't conceal their ages; if their lives are tougher, they frequently possess a certain centeredness and strength that is unavailable to those much younger, who seem somehow unformed, incomplete, far less interesting-and sometimes unbelievably ignorant. Not long ago, a Radcliffe senior confessed that...