Word: faintness
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...something quite a bit larger than a theological Hula-Hoop, something more lasting than a religious Woodstock. It cuts across nearly all the social dividing lines, from crew cut to long hair, right to left, rich to poor. It shows considerable staying power: many who were in its faint beginnings in 1967 are still leading it. It has been powerful enough to divert many young people from serious drug addiction. Its appeal is ecumenical, attracting Roman Catholics and Jews, Protestants of every persuasion and many with no religion at all. Catholics visit Protestant churches with a new empathy, and Protestants...
...advent of the Beatles. They had four hit singles in 1970, two more already this year, four albums, with all ten releases selling in the millions, and one (I'll Be There) already well over 4,000,000. Teen-age girls besiege their home for autographs and sometimes faint when they sing. They have their own magazine, a quarterly in which fans can revel in a whole issue devoted entirely to the Jackson Five and read things like "Michael's Love Letter to You." Stores now bulge with Jackson Five decals, stickers and sweaters. A Jackson Five hair...
Many older people have an entirely different reaction. Long-term exposure to the enervating heat appears to lessen their production of adrenaline, a hormone that maintains blood pressure and helps regulate cardiac function. The older folk become fatigued, apathetic and depressed. They may also become faint, thus contributing to the increased number of automobile accidents...
...squawks, beeps and hums that tell them more about the universe than the eye can see. In the past decade, radio astronomers have made a host of discoveries: quasars, pulsars, free-floating molecules in the lonely reaches between the stars. They have even detected what may be a faint echo of the original Big Bang, the great explosion that some scientists think marked the creation of the stars and galaxies...
...first faint hint of what was to come occurred at the world table tennis championships in Nagoya, Japan, two weeks ago, when the Chinese popped a startling question: "Would the Americans accept an invitation to tour China for a week, all expenses paid?" The group's answer: Delighted...