Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KING LEAR At the Stratford Shakespeare festival in Ontario, director Robin Phillips and star William Hutt brilliantly reinterpreted the title role as a dotard whose authority has long faded and whose daughters' stern discipline is common sense in the face of senility...
...opinion. Everyone suddenly sensed that this gyrating globe, this precious repository of all the life that we know of, ^ was in danger. No single individual, no event, no movement captured imaginations or dominated headlines more than the clump of rock and soil and water and air that is our common home. Thus in a rare but not unprecedented departure from its tradition of naming a Man of the Year, TIME has designated Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year...
...Draconian to call it a war for survival. It is a war in which all nations must be allies. Both the causes and effects of the problems that threaten the earth are global, and they must be attacked globally. "All nations are tied together as to their common fate," observes Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. "We are all facing a common problem, which is, How are we going to keep this single resource we have, namely the world, viable...
Internationally, the Soviets are pushing for stronger accords to protect the environment and are seeking ways to integrate their atmospheric-research efforts with those under way elsewhere. For the first time since World War II, the Soviet Union and the U.S. may have found a common enemy: global climate change. Said President Mikhail Gorbachev in his speech this month to the U.N. General Assembly: "International economic security is inconceivable unless related not only to disarmament but also to the elimination of the threat to the world's environment...
...people and 49,000 factories within its 400 sq. mi., dumps 1,000 tons of plastic a day -- triple the amount thrown away in London. Stinking garbage and human excrement despoils Thailand's majestic River of Kings. Man's effluent is more than an assault on the senses. When common garbage is burned, it spews dangerous gases into the air. Dumped garbage and industrial waste can turn lethal when corrosive acids, long-lived organic materials and discarded metals leach out of landfills into groundwater supplies, contaminating drinking water and polluting farmland...