Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "if it were subject to the pure food and drug laws, it would be illegal to ship it interstate because it's unfit for human consumption." Or for anything else, in fact: a study showed that Cleopatra's Needle, a stone obelisk in Manhattan's Central Park...
...Among the Many. Gardner has probably devoted as much energy to seeking new channels as any man in the Government. He is well aware that a strong central authority is necessary in a nation as vast as the U.S. At the same time, among the aphorisms that he has been collecting for the past 36 years, there is one from Thomas Jefferson that he particularly cherishes. "No, my friend," said Jefferson in a letter, "the way to have good and safe Government is not to trust it all to one, but, to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone...
...mother, Mrs. Marie F. Burns, 76. His father died when John was a year old, and his mother subsequently remarried three times-once to a gold prospector who had been in the Klondike. Gardner recalls listen ing raptly to stories of the Gold Rush. "In each," he says, "the central theme was constant-riches left untapped...
...missing as the Yugoslav Central Committee met last week in Belgrade's ornate, 19th century Parliament Hall. For the first time since World War II, President Josip Broz Tito was not present to call the tune. He was relaxing at his island hideaway of Brioni, fully content to let his lieutenants transact what business there was. Tito's absence-and his confidence-were symbolic of the country's new relaxation. Yugoslav Communism is evolving toward a less dictatorial-if still far from democratic-form of government...
...central inspiration of Miss Greenspan's poem suggests the major theme of the entire issue. After "turning the day clockless" the poetess becomes concerned with discovering "some sequence of tense." Marshall Berman and Anne Bernays similarly have attempted to find some sequence of events in their pasts, which help clarify their present attitudes and feelings. Kroch and Aufhauser have observed the conflicts between a traditional way of life and the demands of modernity. Russo and Hamburg have prssented fragments of the past in fiction and poetry. Mosaic does not try to put together the puzzle of the past; it successfully...