Word: durant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Will Durant, the Book-of-the-Month Club's ubiquitous historian, once observed that "no man who is in a hurry is quite civilized." Time bestows value because objects reflect the hours they absorb: the hand-carved table, the handwritten letter, every piece of fine craftsmanship, every grace note. But now we have reached the stage at which not only are the luxuries of time disappearing -- for reading meaty novels, baking from scratch, learning fugues, traveling by sea rather than air, or by foot rather than wheel -- but the necessities of time are also out of reach. Family time...
...balked at that, its funding requests have dropped from $399.9 million in fiscal year 1982 to $305.5 million last year. "My feeling is that if everyone assumes that ((legal aid)) is a federal responsibility, the opportunity to develop alternatives simply will not be encouraged," says Corporation Chairman W. Clark Durant III. When Congress refused this year to cut the corporation's budget further, to $250 million, the board actually hired lobbyists to press the lawmakers for less -- yes, less -- money...
...main hall of his museum: an aging man twitching aside the veil, raising the curtain on the world's collected knowledge. He was the first in a long and recognizably American line of pushy sages and didactic popularizers, which would run forward to people like Will and Ariel Durant and Mortimer Adler...
...papers, stressed that the technique "is an experimental treatment in the infancy of its development." Still, he said, "it is a first step in a new direction of cancer therapy. It can work. The challenge is to improve it." In an accompanying editorial, Dr. John Durant of Philadelphia's Fox Chase Cancer Center wrote, "Perhaps we are at the end of the beginning of the search for successful immunotherapy for cancer...
...Vice President's campaign aides argued that a strong Robertson candidacy would actually help protect Bush on his vulnerable right flank by drawing support from conservatives such as Kemp and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt. But W. Clark Durant III, a Detroit attorney who chairs Kemp's operation in Michigan, maintains that the Vice President was the big loser last week. "While a lot of the numbers may be overstated or double counted or muddled, the message is really very clear," says he. "The Republican grass roots want an alternative to George Bush. Even by his own count, Bush didn...