Word: buchan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every weekday morning, Mechanical Engineer John Buchan, 23, dresses neatly in a suit and tie and roller-skates seven miles across San Francisco to his office. He is not alone. The Bay City also boasts a roller-skating messenger service, skating grocery shoppers and skating mothers pushing baby carriages. In Los Angeles, Linda Ronstadt skated to a luncheon date with Governor Jerry Brown. On the boardwalk in Venice, Calif., a thousand skaters may appear on a Sunday, navigating perilously among pedestrians, while rolling guitarists serenade the sunbathers. In Minneapolis, the owner of Rolling Soles, Scott Sansby, 27, finds skating...
...genre has twin traditions: Great Bad Writing and Great Good Writing. In the Manichaean world of Great Bad Books, evil is always more compelling than heroism. Such works as John Buchan's The 39 Steps construct elaborate international conspiracies; Sax Rohmer's exemplary Fu Manchu series features a supervillain "with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race . . . the Yellow Peril incarnate." From there it is only a bullet's journey to Ian Fleming's Doctor...
...risk that the Arabs would underestimate the U.S. commitment to Israel. Some political experts stress that in a diplomatic situation as difficult as that in the Middle East now, a treaty might be useful. "The only effective and tested form of guarantee is an alliance," declared Oxford Professor Alastair Buchan in last year's Reith Lectures...
...Ireland and Emiliano Zapata in Mexico. The fact that the leader of the P.L.O. appeared at the U.N. showed that it is already becoming respectable in the eyes of much of the world. "Respectability depends on whose side you're on," says Oxford Historian Alastair Buchan. "To the Turks, Lawrence of Arabia was a terrorist...
...remain random and capricious. For most anglers, that will be all right. In the end, they do not gear up for the sole purpose of bringing back a haul of wall eyed pike or edible perch. They also go out in the spirit of that great adventure novelist John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), who once peered beneath the surface of the water and caught the essence of the sport: "The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual se ries of occasions for hope." Hope: in 1974 that remains...