Word: fleetingness
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Of course -- because the joint is bound to be packed with publicists, photo opportunists and blaring life-stylists. The manufacture of quick and disposable illusions is an overwhelming reality in an era when the concept of image is replacing the value of reputation. What Historian Daniel J. Boorstin called pseudo...
But fame can be as fleeting as an image on a television screen: Olliemania is a bust. Joel Shelton of Boulder sold (at $12 each) fewer than 500 shirts bearing North's picture. John Lee Hudson of San Francisco is canceling plans for a mail-order Ollie doll ($19.95) because...
The Constitution's great merit lies in its timeliness, its depth and its durability. People like Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate, and Bernie Sanders, the socialist mayor of Burlington, Vt., would sacrifice the individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution for specific economic amendments. There is great danger in adopting ideas...
Harvard administrators believe that students cannot act with proper perspective or responsibility due to their fleeting presence (in comparison to the immortality of this 351-year-old institution). Or maybe they just don't like undergraduates; sometimes it's hard to tell. Therefore, student input is ignored on decisions on...
In these fleeting weeks, birders head for one or more of the nation's famous migrant hot spots such as High Island, Texas, Big Morongo Wildlife Reserve in California, Point Pelee in Ontario and the Ramble in Manhattan's Central Park. Some will bird in a local park or simply...