Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Snuggled in there on the racks among HUMOROUS NEPHEW and FOREIGN BIRTHDAY are cards with messages such as "The warmth of your hug lingers . . ." and "In this world it's very scary to be open and vulnerable . . ." and "Finally, I have a friend I can trust . . . completely!" So far the genre has no name -- call it the emotionally expressive component of the nonoccasion card market. But under such brand names as Soft Sentiments and Personal Touch, cards retailing love, heartache and other real-life, prepackaged emotions are among the hottest products in the industry. "The style today is openness...
Town building inspector Michael Card said his request that students refrain from going inside the shanties was not an attempt to enter into a political debate and not an effort to evacuate them for destruction...
...Unfortunately, their protest took a form in which there are overtones of public safety," Card said. "I was very concerned about the students actually staying inside the buildings. They could collapse in a heavy wind, and there's also an issue of fire safety...
...sees it, intuition, at least the successful kind, is something more than vague presentiment. The sifting of personal experience is an important part of the intuitive faculty. Rowan approvingly quotes the late Joyce Hall, founder of the Hallmark greeting-card empire, who called memory "the vapor of past experiences." Successful managers, Rowan recounts, have found some unusual places in which to enjoy those fumes. McDonald's Chairman Ray Kroc opted for a 700-gal. waterbed on which he and his aides plopped to think...
...first statement is perplexing; the second is offensive. Is there really going to be a parade of pilgims and 100 grand pianos playing Harard songs while crimson pennants drop into the stands by parachute and the audience executes card stunts and shouts "Harvard's number...