Word: fern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor of Biology Rolla M. Tryon and his wife, Lecturer in Biology Alice F. Tryon-two of the world's experts on the fern-individual research on the fuzzy, apparently harmless plant created a husband-wife team which has gone on to make pioneer advances in understanding the dual-natured fern...
...budget pinch keeps getting worse. "Forget about buying books, or getting clothes, or going somewhere for the weekend," says Fernández, a professor of social psychology. "We're living by the day," says his wife, who has an administrative job. "The refrigerator seems half empty most of the time...
...When his twelve-year-old son's science project turns out to be playing rock music to the house plants, the consequences for the plants, he writes, are surreal: "They're all deaf and two of them are starting to grow zits. And last night our Boston fern's hair caught fire." Stewart remembers when Bombeck wrote at the Dayton paper early in her career. "I wouldn't say that I looked at her and saw she was making $40 million and said, 'God what a racket!' But she certainly gave me an inspiration...
...thing, journalism rarely sees the larger truth of a story because reporters are usually chasing quite small elements of information. A story, like a fern, only reveals its final shocking shape in stages. Journalism also reduces most of the stories it deals with to political considerations. Matters are defined in terms of where power lies, who opposes whom or what, where the special interests are. As a result, the larger truth of a story is often missed or ignored. By its nature, political thought limits speculative thought. Political realities themselves cannot be grasped by an exclusively political way of looking...
...brilliantly observed caricature of the contemporary urban male. At one point Weaver, representing the reality principle, informs him that he seems less a scientist than a game-show host. But he is a far more amusing figure. He is, in fact, some ultimate Yuppie, seemingly stoned on fern-bar manners, mores and folk wisdom. His utter imperviousness to anything that cannot be comprehended in those basic materialist terms is finally a more potent weapon than all the atomic gadgetry he and his friends carry into their battles with the forces of darkness...