Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advantages of rugged beauty and almost total inaccessibility. To reach the unprepossessing stone farmhouse, a visitor must start down a tiny, unmarked country lane that leads to two footpaths, each passing through separate farms and yards. Impressively large and vocal dogs patrol the neighbors' property. If an intrepid fan tried the back way, he would be stopped by an impenetrable...
...reunion would be particularly wrenching for McCartney just as he is enjoying his first full success since the breakup. It might not be easier for anyone else either. Jenny Brandt, a 17-year-old McCartney fan, said it best as she waited to get into the Philadelphia concert. "Wings is doing good on its own, even though it'll never be the same as the Beatles. But I don't want them to get back together. It would be a super-let down. They could never produce the music they once did. It's a different...
...mere puck passing. Only 22,000 saw the Chapman tragedy; today a man kicking dirt on the shoes of an umpire is seen by millions of viewers. University of California Sociologist Harry Edwards, a former college track star, finds that "the violence in sport is magnified by television. The fan can identify with violence in terms of what he would like to do with the forces he cannot control." And in a recent paper in the medical journal Pediatrics, three physicians reported an "Evel Knievel syndrome" -imitation of exhibitionism in sport. "Televised violence," explains the paper, "especially during sporting events...
...outrage is well placed. Few fans weep for the professional athlete, even when he is hospitalized. He is young, heavily muscled and even more heavily compensated. A six-figure income does much to assuage pain and indignity. The essential concern is with that "entire generation's concept of sport." A fan, an owner or a player who comes to be lieve a pitcher has the right to injure a batter may as well believe that Bobby Fischer has a right to kick over the chessboard when he is threatened, or that order itself is an outmoded idea...
...Washington finished naming his first Cabinet, as well as the first Supreme Court. France was catching fire, with new reports on the fall of the Bastille. But TIME does not limit itself to politics. In September of 1789, Mozart has just been commissioned to write a comic opera (Cost Fan Tutte), and TIME'S Books section reviews a new book of poems, Songs of Innocence, by a young Englishman named William Blake...