Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which they are changing our nation. A 1981 cover story described the pervasive Hispanic influence in South Florida, and another in 1983 dealt with the new mix of ethnic groups in Los Angeles. The subject, however, encompasses areas as diverse as education, culture, food, business, religion, indeed every aspect of our lives. The more TIME's editors examined immigration today, the more they concluded that it represented a change of historic dimensions. For this reason, they have chosen to devote virtually an entire issue to the subject. This format has been used only three times in the past decade...
...talkers was Evan Connell, whose earlier hits, Mrs. Bridge (Viking; 1959) and Mr. Bridge (Knopf; 1969), had been published by Manhattan-based companies. He found North Point Press "invariably courteous," and when they offered him attractive royalties and a substantial advance, he signed on. Every aspect of production was negotiated, a sharp variance from the dictatorial New York style. "Evan didn't want photographs in the book," Turnbull remembers. "We felt they might make it more salable to history buffs. Evan won." But the author conceded another point: he provided a detailed index...
Arguing against at least one aspect of the Bossert story, the drowning, was the revelation of Marc Berkowitz, who as a twelve-year-old in 1944 had been one of Mengele's guinea pigs, and also served the doctor as a messenger boy. From his home in New City, N.Y., Berkowitz recalled that the doctor "had a phobia about water. He was afraid of water-carried diseases." Mengele told Berkowitz that he never swam in rivers or lakes. In Brazil, meanwhile, a dentist said that she had treated a man just like Mengele two months after the alleged drowning...
...relentless, poignant footage of families awaiting word from Beirut the least important aspect of television coverage but the most damaging. The episodes of joy and pain strike a sensitive chord with the American public sustaining the story's emotions pitch--and the terrorists' influence...
...most unsettling aspect of such events is how quickly they come and go. People are borne backward in air and then are suddenly dropped on their seats. The ground is dry again, the stadium walls are cemented, the dead have been carted away. Were it not for the holes in the census, one would never know that a disaster took place, so smoothly does the earth seal its fissures. Even memory, which honors and cherishes the dead, recalls nothing of the rage except that it existed, that it was awful feeling like paper in a storm, even...