Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What makes a good member of society? The "higher purpose" his nation exhorts him to? Or the very specific moral and legal demands put upon him by his neighbors, his village and the ties of blood and land? In an era of megamachines and megastates, do we overrate the big in history-the Roman Empire, the papacy? If you wanted to change, really change, the world today, wouldn't you do well to "cultivate smaller gardens," the neighborhood community rather than the U.N.? The seminar concluded in stalemate, but no mind left it entirely unaltered...
Nothing is too big or too small for Bennett to put his hand to. He scribbles away at the obligatory manifestoes, digs in on fund raising, entertains the big-name circuit riders, like David Riesman, Jacques Barzun and Mortimer Adler, who drop by, and sends the fellows out on their own hustings, mostly to lecture at the three universities in the neighborhood: Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State. Then he taps out a memo: "Lost. Alice has asked us all to check whether her thin black-handled Henckels knife went home by mistake on a cake platter...
...Kennedy's zeal for an activist Big Government, which has long been his mark, has gradually become more selective. His stiff antitrust legislation, his endless hearings against increasing conglomerate mergers, have put him on the side of opening the way for smaller companies to compete against the biggest corporations...
...big race for the lights on Worcester's Lake Quinsigamond will be the varsity final at 4:45 p.m. And as two-seat Mike Cominsky said, "We are going...
...monomaniacal reporter that David Halberstam is. But after a few telltale early-warning signs in The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam has finally lapsed into his anecdotage. The Powers That Be ranks as the ultimate politico-media gossip book, with a thousand jolly stories and vivacious quotes about four big-time media institutions--Time magazine, CBS, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times--and how they have interacted with politics, mainly presidential, during the last century...