Word: facet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PARTICULARLY interesting facet of the Jonestown affair is that it involved many of the vague, somehow threatening phenomena and mindsets that characterize fringe groups in America today. The very embodiment of this, of course, was the Rev. Jim Jones, a peculiarly American product. So many details of his bizarre life have emerged in the past week that most people are probably tired of him already, but for others the fascination, albeit morbid, remains. Here was a man who managed to combine and warp good impulses by way of a twisted psyche...
...newly graduated engineer with a bachelor's degree can expect a starting salary of $16,000, plus sign-up bonus. Engineers with ten years or more experience in virtually any facet of electronics can fetch $50,000. Additional perks often include payments for the selling costs on the recruit's old home and closing costs on the new home, free lodging while house hunting, conferences with tax specialists (in hopes of setting up tax shelters) and membership in a country club...
...open letter to Buffalo" that Brown released to the Buffalo Courier-Express July 8, Brown hit the woeful facet of this whole trade. In his letter, he wrote...
...Gibson's work gives her more contact with students than with her fellow workers, and she has few complaints about this facet of the job. Sometimes undergraduates ask Epps or Gibson to serve as a go-between in protesting some aspect of a House policy that the student feels he or she can't attack alone. Sometimes they need financial help, or advice on a personal matter. Occasionally, Epps has summoned the student on a disciplinary matter. Epps is frequently the liaison between Harvard and Cambridge on legal issues affecting a student, whether it be a parking ticket scofflaw...
...Picasso and Braque became internationally known, could sidestep it. But the expressionists were not fundamentally interested in the neutral subjects of cubism: the quotidian landscape of cafe table, brown guitar, pipe, bottle and chair. Franz Marc, who died in the trenches at 36, turned to the cubist vocabulary of facets, prisms and sliding rays to express his pantheistic view of nature, the Eden of happy animals: "We will no longer paint the forest or the horse as they please us or appear to us, but as they really are, as the forest or the horse feel themselves-their absolute being...