Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well wonder what would move otherwise deliberate, sensual, more-or-less well-adjusted people to bug out their eyes, desert their beds and friends, and throw down large doses of industrial strength instant Maxwell House. For some, (and such matters are impossible to quantify) a senior thesis is a pleasant opportunity, to write a truly trenchant essay concerning some topic of major interest. But for many others, those for whom the process is a pall on their lives and for whom the process is a pall on their lives and for whom the product has no meaning, the motive force...
...this latest venture, LaZebnik envisions purgatory as a vast, bug-infested wasteland, where decision-making has degenerated into the acceptance of "viable alternatives, second choices, trial balloons." Built upon repetition--for where there are no choices, there is no real escape from the past--it is a vision which, hopefully, does not augur a similar fate for LaZebnik: being condemned to write the same show over and over again...
...difference between the right word and the almost right word," Mark Twain once observed, "is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Since Twain's day, in the view of many newspaper editors, a plague of fireflies has filled the sky: neologisms proliferate and the rules of grammar have raveled badly. To deal with the situation, the Associated Press and United Press International are preparing a new joint stylebook, and the New York Times has just issued a revised 231-page Manual of Style and Usage (Quadrangle; $10), though the last version appeared only 14 years...
...outside Washington every week the world's secrets flow from U.S. spy ships, surveillance planes, satellites and hundreds of electronic listening posts round the globe. Unlike the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies, the NSA's mission is strictly communications-electronics and cryptology. It is the ultimate bug, the source of most of the nation's foreign intelligence information and, like the CIA, a source of growing controversy...
Escape is possible with Walt Disney's most creative film, Fantasia (barely edging out The Love Bug and Flubber for the honor), which starts tomorrow at Harvard Square. Made in 1940, Fantasia stretches the mind with its animation and soothes the ear with Stravinsky and Bach...