Word: ets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That adventure promises to be a colorful extravaganza. The economic meeting at Louis XIV's palace in Versailles will be capped by a special performance of the Paris Opera and a son et lumière fireworks display. The President will meet with the Pope in the Vatican's Papal Apartments, five days after the Pontiff's return from his trip to Britain, and then fly by helicopter to meet with President Sandro Pertini at the Quirinale Palace, built in 1574 as a summer residence for Pope Gregory VIII. At the invitation of Queen Elizabeth, Reagan will...
...sentiment, or lack of it, is common in the business. As one eminent three-year-old after another fell apart this spring - Deputy Minister, Stalwart, Lets Dont Fight, et al. - the horsemen's reaction was generally to shrug and say, "This is racing." But the fans tend more to be of the Black Beauty school of horse lovers, and the anthropomorphizing before the 108th Derby was fierce...
...possibly it is a cloud on the horizon, lit by the sun that never penetrates the buildings, in the last electric-blue silence of dusk. It contracts the near and the far, enchanting one's sense of space. The early De Chiricos are full of such effects. Et quid amabo nisi quodaenigma es/?(What shall I love if not the enigma?)-this question, inscribed by the young artist on his self-portrait in 1911, is their subtext...
...manic overstimulation of American culture also makes excellence rarer. The great intellectual flowering of New England in the 19th century (Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, Longfellow, et al.) resulted in part from the very thinness of the New England atmosphere, an under-stimulation that made introspection a sort of cultural resource. America today is so chaotically hyped, its air so thick with kinetic information and alarming images and television and drugs, that the steady gaze required for excellence is nearly impossible. The trendier victims retreat to sealed isolation tanks to float on salt water and try to calm down...
...Japan and West Germany and shift growth to such other areas as electronics, automobiles, and even solar energy. We will reduce our potentially disastrous rate of consumption of nonrenewable resources. We will drastically reduce the deficit and inflation. And according to statistics in The Obstacles to the NIEO (Laszlo, et al), we will increase the total number of jobs per $1 billion of expenditure from 76,000 (when the billion is used for military programs) to at least 100,000 (when it is used for civilian programs). Furthermore, if this same billion were released through tax cuts. 112.000 jobs would...