Word: astir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wild walking is the best, but all walking is a matter of style. It is an escape from thought, a liberation, and also a way of thinking, of setting the world astir...
Toad simultaneously loved walking as an escape from thought, a way of setting the world itself astir, like a cycloramic dream, so that it flowed through his eye to his mind at the speed that suits the total creature best -- all higher speeds being a mere greed for frivolous accelerations, for wind in the face...
...world of academia has been astir lately with revelations about historic books and documents. Subscribers receiving their copy of the quarterly Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America found it devoted largely to analyses of paper and ink used in the Gutenberg Bible; the research shed new light on the production techniques used in Johann Gutenberg's print- shop. In Ann Arbor, Mich., UMI Research Press was shipping copies of The Calov Bible of J.S. Bach, which reveals that markings on the pages of the Bible owned by Bach were made by the great composer. And in Washington, the journal...
Still, it is Regan's emergence that seems certain to keep Washington astir with fresh uncertainties, intrigues and potential clashes. While Treasury Secretary, Regan seemed to relish a good brawl. He butted heads with Volcker and with Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. After seriously considering efforts to kill the council, the President decided last week against such a drastic move. It is clear, however, that Regan will not take kindly to any economic advice that runs counter to his own beliefs. He had, for example, disputed Budget Director David Stockman's gloomy economic estimates. Stockman...
...look in on yet another tricky democratic transition, in tiny Grenada (see following story). But with much of the diplomatic pilgrimage still ahead, a senior U.S. official traveling with the Secretary made the expansive claim that "on the whole, U.S.-Latin relations are doing rather well." In a hemisphere astir with the problems of debt, military menace, and the heady allure of democracy, the notion was comforting but still mercurial...