Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their children and grandchildren will, 50 years hence, confront what today's grandparent usually finds on a trip to the attic - crumbling, yellowed newspapers inexorably turning to dust. A few years ago an assistant professor of librarianship at the University of Washington named Richard Smith devised a simple formula for ensuring the survival of history-making newsprint. His innovation is ripe for use now. The recipe, which is meant solely for printed matter, not handwritten letters, reads like a home remedy for a Watergate-induced headache: dissolve a milk of magnesia tablet in a quart of club soda...
...themselves wanting. Their sense of ease cannot be scorned. But according to a 1971 study of Radcliffe Quad life by University Health Services psychiatrist Elizabeth A. Reid, coeducation increases the likelihood that women will find friends and intellectual companions within their own sex. And the magic number for that formula is one-to-one. No other ratio works...
...friends were taciturn, self-made men who shunned the spotlight. These were principally those two rich entrepreneurs, Bebe Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp. "I'm an introvert in an extravert profession," Nixon said-a formula that itself may have been a stratagem of concealment. When confronted with a crisis, he became more secretive than ever, withdrawing into seclusion and arriving at a decision with relatively little outside advice. Sternly self-controlled ("I have a fetish about disciplining myself"), he was stiff in public and rarely relaxed in private. As Author Garry Wills maintained in Nixon Agonistes, Nixon erected this "wall...
Aiding him is a mechanic-pal named Deke (Adam Roarke), a barely reformed rummy who could go round the bend any minute. Only a girl is required to round out this formula, and it must be said of Susan George that she rounds it out very nicely indeed. Miss George makes something of a specialty of playing pouty jailbait (recall Straw Dogs), and she shows spunk-among other things-as she runs about in tight jeans and skimpy halters...
Since the middle sixties Harvard has vastly increased the amount of in-lieu-of tax payments it makes to Cambridge, Allston and Boston. Although the University still resists local pressure to pay by formula--a precedent that could deal a deadly blow to many non-profit institutions not quite as well-off as Harvard--the amounts Harvard is now paying are much more satisfactory to its three cities. And in Cambridge (where the tension with Harvard has been most acute) the University has assured city fathers that it will not make any non-essential land purchases outside specific boundaries...