Word: fading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly the most versatile. Critics are indeed hard-pressed to name anyone as consistently good, before or since. And his lyrics--few writers, much less songwriters, could ever match his wit and style. He not only reflected his times; he put a patina on them that will not fade...
...board in Washington is the final authority. A succession of forceful chairmen-Marriner Eccles (1936-48), William McChesney Martin (1951-70), Arthur Burns (1970-78) and now Miller-have caused the other governors to fade into public obscurity, but they still have influence. Next to Miller on the current board, J. (for John) Charles Partee, a former head of the Fed staff and wise student of the economy, has the most clout. Henry Wallich, a former Yale professor, is the board's contact man with foreign central banks. A refugee from Germany, he lived through insane inflation there...
Contrary to Warhol's essentially democratic premise-everybody, but briefly -fame elevates some mortals into realms where their celebrity achieves a life of its own. While a Tiny Tim or a Judith Exner may flare and fade, others acquire a strange permanence-or its illusion, which is of course just as good. They have been transported into another medium where information and images are permanently (or for years, anyway) stored. In the formula of Historian Daniel Boorstin, they have "become well known for being well known." A classic of the category is, say, Elizabeth Taylor. Who, outside...
...meantime, the organizers "just want to keep the issues in peoples' minds," Daniel Rabinowitz '78, a SASC leader, said yesterday. "It's going to be a long, hard struggle and we don't want to let it fade away," he added...
...must not think that the makers of this film intend merely to wow us with gaudy excess. No, no, no. They have soul. Quinn is discovered brooding sadly over his wife's beauty. Why does it make him gloomy? Because, he says, all beautiful things must eventually fade. That is in the nature of things. He is full of such slack epigrams, otherwise known as folk wisdom. Though this trait is more laughable than memorable, it serves the function of making him human, despite his wealth, his international wheeling and dealing, his lusty eye for wenches. Indeed, since everyone...