Word: bend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small courtroom in Orange County, Calif., last week, Attorney Allen Millstone pointed sadly to his wheelchair-bound client. In 1983 James Higgins had been a vigorous young man of 18 when he went to Disneyland and took a ride on Space Mountain. As the roller coaster rounded a bend, the youth was suddenly thrown from the rocket car. Through Disney's negligence, argued Millstone, Higgins is a paraplegic. Twenty-four hundred miles away in Florida, in another Orange County courtroom, an equally sad story was unfolding. While Marietta and Harry Goode listened closely, Lawyer Philip Freidin recounted a tragic...
...conservative terms, but in terms of what we will tolerate from other human beings. South Africa, as did Nazi Germany, thrives on a fear and prejudice that its rulers have elevated to religious and mythic proportions. Such systems do not die or change easily, and they do not bend to want we like to believe are the subtle democratizing influences of capitalism. Today, we would not give a second thought to ridding ourselves of any connection with Nazi Germany, a regime that along with few others is startlingly similar to South Africa in 1985. Why, like a nation of Neville...
...appeal to him to bend greater efforts to help restore that harmony for a variety of reasons, not least the benefit to America. Neal Jacobs...
...largest and most influential of male orders, because its members were too frequently challenging church policy. He later installed his own temporary administration at Jesuit headquarters. Though the order is on its own again, it is not yet clear how much new Superior General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach will bend the society to the papal will. John Paul's strictures do not seem to have discouraged vocations: six years ago the worldwide total of candidates for the priesthood was 61,000; in 1982 it had risen...
...color epitomized by the Miami firm Arquitectonica. The German-born Jahn, 45, an architect celebrated--some would say notorious--for his arch flourishes with high-tech elements, had applied some of the same ideas in his own earlier work, notably his 1982 First Source Center atrium in South Bend, Ind. Moreover, in such designs as his witty 1982 addition to the Chicago Board of Trade and his romantic Southwest Center, soon to rise in Houston, he has moved toward an ever more fanciful treatment of modernist themes...