Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Based in a 100-year-old converted brick mill in Paterson, N.J., Tweeds is the creation of refugees from rival J. Crew. Ted Pamperin, 48, Tweeds' chairman, had worked as J. Crew's executive vice president and Aschkenes as its merchandising director. Though paid well at J. Crew, the two partners were frustrated entrepreneurs. Says Aschkenes: "We didn't want to be sitting on rocking chairs when we were 80 years old, never having tried it on our own." They raised $6 million in venture capital financing and now control a minority interest in the firm. The rivalry with their...
Faust, who last year published The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South, is a leading figure in U.S. Southern history. She is now working on a book about Confederate women in the Civil...
...mirth, sadness, disappointment and disdain are well developed. A lifetime overcoming obscurity, asthma and anxiety among strangers in strange lands has taught him to expect the worst. His autobiographical writings toll with such gloomy remarks as "To see the possibility, the certainty, of ruin, even at the moment of creation: it was my temperament." To a visitor who has just blown through 10 1/2 time zones to arrive promptly for a meeting in Madras, he says, "When someone says I'll meet you between 3 and 4 p.m., it means our relationship is finished...
...poverty was more dehumanizing than any modern machine. Eight years before Salman Rushdie outraged the Imam, Naipaul had pinpointed the problem of true believers: "In the fundamentalist scheme the world constantly decays and has constantly to be re-created. The only function of intellect is to assist that re-creation...
Many companies have taken heed of the grass-roots protests. The mishandling of the Exxon Valdez accident prompted the oil industry to announce last week the creation of a $250 million plan to prevent and clean up future spills. In the wake of Washington's defense-procurement scandals, Boeing beefed up its ethics committee. "It's a no-nonsense program," says committee head Malcolm Stamper, an aerospace veteran. "There's no winking. If we find out that a program official is obtaining marketing information improperly...