Word: classically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly 3,000 residents of an Ohio Valley coal-mining area pressed into a hotel ballroom in the town of St. Clairsville in a concerned and angry mood last week. The subject of the meeting, set up by the Environmental Protection Agency: an antipollution rule that has caused a classic conflict involving the competing needs for clean air, jobs and profits...
...Milne's classic, Piglet was left virtually speechless by his run-in with what he thought was the mysterious Heffalump. Now astronomers can share his bafflement as they grope for words to describe their own strange encounter. Off in the distant heavens, among a grouping of stars that the ancients called Cygnus (the Swan), they seem to have found a celestial version of a Heffalump. It is a cosmic beast of such enormous gravity that it appears to be tugging, stretching and, indeed, slowly gobbling up its giant companion, a massive star more than 20 times the size...
Unlike Laplace's dark star, this Einsteinian black hole?the name was not coined by Physicist Wheeler until the 1960s?had far more finality. Since relativity forbids anything to move faster than light, an idea unknown in classic Newtonian physics, escape was impossible. All the energy in the world could not extract an object from a black hole...
These are familiar indictments, but Barrett enlists them in a new cause. In Irrational Man, his classic treatise on existentialism, the author warned that man's sheer cleverness could provoke his ruin. In The Illusion of Technique, Barrett argues that even if we survive, the familiar world may well recede from our grasp, supplanted by systems that aspire to control human destiny. Barrett contends that philosophy can recall us to that world. To support his claim he cites three modern figures: Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James. However divergent in their styles of thought, they shared Kant...
...Shogun is a summer vacation." So are most other bestsellers. The trick is to book readers into the right vacation. N.A.L. hopes to sell more than 10 million copies of Fools Die and their edition of The Godfather. There are already 13 million paperback copies of the Mafia classic in print...