Word: faddishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target in the 1960s of attempted hostile takeovers by Norton Simon and Howard Hughes and an aborted merger with ITT), and its hold on last place in the ratings seemed depressingly unshakable. Some of the network's hit shows of the late 1960s and early '70s were often faddish entries, quick to catch on and quick to fade away: Batman, The Mod Squad, Kung Fu. ABC's ratings woes became the subject of mordant jokes. Asked how to end the Viet Nam War, industry wags would reply, "Turn it into an ABC series and it will be canceled...
NFOLIBERALISM exists only on an elite axis that runs between Cambridge, New York, and Washington. It is a faddish strain of thinking among Fast Coast eggheads who like to fashion movements that as a concept holds out some promise. Once someone thought up the word neoconservative, neoliberalism was not long in coming, as has been made clear in the pages of the New Republic, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic and other journals of the cognoscenti. Gurus abound in the likes of Robert Reich, I ester Thurow, and Charles Peters--and there are plenty of politicians who have been ready...
...knows. But should older woman/younger man relationships leave their faddish status and enter into mainstream respectability, the social impact would be enormous: The institutions of marriage and the family would have to be restructured; standards for both feminine and masculine attractiveness would be broadened; and the pool of available men would remain (theoretically) constant for aging women instead of shrinking, as it does under conventional circumstances...
DEVELOPMNET ECONOMICS is a faddish field. While other practitioners of the dismal science study the herd mentality, development economists practice it. But despite many voices, consensus is hard to come by. The field's single universally accepted truth may well be the assertion that despite 35 years of attention, the problems of the Third World seem as intractable as ever. But in this mercurial field. P. T. Bauer has remained an academic constant...
...Senator John Glenn (52% to 41%). Of course, the voters scrambling to support Hart might leave him tomorrow, or next week in the important Illinois primary. Indeed, most polls showed that his following was not deeply committed. Hart must be concerned that his support is faddish and could collapse...