Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants to provoke a crisis with an official count) no longer bears much relationship to the unwritten National Covenant of 1943, which established ratios. The Moslems, once a minority, now total 1.8 million and exceed Maronite Christians (1.2 million), who still wield majority power. This rigid confessional formula has become a straitjacket, institutionalizing communal dissension rather than easing it. Yet despite the continuing bloodshed and the threat of anarchy, politicians in the bitterly divided nation have largely proved neither powerful, courageous nor selfless enough to agree on a practical alternative...
...should work. Taylor's innovation-time-and-motion study-was based on a painstaking analysis of work: the exact number of elementary operations or motions, the time required to do these, the elimination of waste motions and the recombination of these times and motions into a mathematical formula for the "one best way" to do a job. Out of Taylor's innovations came the incentive and bonus system, differential rates of pay based on distinct skill classifications, the standardization of tools and equipment and, most important, the shift of all planning and scheduling from the work floor...
...racing professionally in 1966, and quickly built a reputation as a cool, pleasant, almost error-free technician. After winning several major events-including the Indianapolis 500 in 1972-and more than $1 million in purses, he quit driving briefly in 1974, then slipped into the slim cockpit of a Formula One car this year in pursuit of the one trophy that still eluded him: a major Grand Prix victory. "That last lap," he said during his short retirement. "I really didn't want it to end; I wanted...
Died. Frederick Glidden, 67, better known by his pen name Luke Short, Illinois-born author of more than 50 hell-bent-for-leather Westerns, some of them later adapted into successful movies (Ramrod, Vengeance Valley, Blood on the Moon), all of them turned out with a plot formula he described as "writing myself into a corner, then writing my way out again"; of cancer; in Aspen, Colo...
...After World War I, during which she led a major effort to house and feed French and Belgian refugees, she divided her time between an estate north of Paris and a villa on the Riviera. Much of her later work was little better than contemporary soap opera, written by formula to keep her expensive life-style going. But the best of it, like The Age of Innocence, returned to the once despised world of her childhood, which she dissected with loving care. Such is the in exorable irony of nostalgia...