Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are perfectly happy to discuss their plans with anyone who's remotely curious. The only problem is that the local, national and international media, not to mention the proverbial man on the street, are far more interested in K-man wonderment than substantive stands. Complaints that the herd of dark horses don't get enough airtime reached a new high recently. One of their number related that he had been overjoyed to get a call from an out-of-town newspaper, only to realize that the reporter just wanted to talk to him about Kennedy's candidacy...
Practical-minded modern Americans have been contemptuous of follies, those curious buildings meant only to charm and delight. But recent architectural fashion has been tending toward the fey, even the frivolous. This winter in the American heartland, form follows fantasy completely: in St. Paul and Galveston, Texas, local volunteers have just finished putting up elaborate municipal whimsies...
...Curious, and even worried, about the impact of Gospel TV, evangelists and mainline critics joined in a rare cooperative gesture in 1984, commissioning an extensive study by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications and the Gallup organization. The three conclusions: surprisingly, although the evangelists raise their funds to reach the "lost," they mostly reinforce people already committed to evangelical religion. Contrary to understandable fears, Gospel TV does not undercut attendance and contributions at local churches. The competing church factions face a common, all-powerful enemy: secularized general...
...prosecuted more insider- trading cases last year than at any other time in its history, a number greater than all the other districts in the U.S. combined. Last week Giuliani took the lead in investigating a burgeoning New York City parking-violations scandal that has been linked to the curious suicide attempt of Queens Borough President Donald Manes and threatens to entangle the highest levels of city government...
A1940 edition of The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology describes the professional animosity which developed in the empassioned climate: "The psychoanalysists are inclined to consider the academic psychologists curious fellows in no way concerned with the real problems... The psychologists, on the other hand are inclined to look on the psychoanalysts as `mystics' or `cultists...