Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...erased from the arsenal of technology. While the currents of politics and of culture can be stopped, deflected, or even reversed, technology is irreversible. In recent years, Germany, Greece and some other countries have gone from democracy to dictatorship and back to democracy. But we cannot go back and forth be tween the kerosene lamp and the electric light. Our inability to uninvent will prove ever more troublesome as our technology proliferates and refines more and more unimagined, seemingly irrelevant wants. Driven by "needs" for the unnecessary, we remain impotent to conjure the needs away. Our Aladdin's lamp...
Like a child torn by a parental custody fight, Genesco, the sprawling retail and apparel concern, rocked back and forth for years in a war for control between two strong-willed personalities: W. Maxey Jarman and his son Franklin. In the end both lost. Four years ago, Franklin, now 45, ousted his father as company head and set about stripping Genesco of unprofitable businesses that Maxey had acquired in an unsuccessful attempt to expand sales to $2 billion a year. (They are about half that now.) Then, last week, Franklin himself was bounced in a coup organized over...
Note: During all this the Public Address system at the Orson Welles Cinema, which charged three dollars a head for the lecture, has been picking up tunes from a local radio station. As Welles swings into his last pronouncements, the PA brings forth "The Hustle...
...Jewish Publication Society of America generally limits itself to unleavened texts that sell a few thousand copies each, but three years ago it brought forth a cheerful magazine-sized volume called The Jewish Catalog. Modeled after the countercultural Whole Earth Catalog, with a breezy text embellished by sprightly cartoons, the work was a do-it-yourself primer on Jewish customs and religious practices. It also turned into a runaway bestseller, currently in its tenth printing, with nearly 200,000 copies sold at $5.50. Inevitably, readers poured in new ideas. Inevitably, there had to be a sequel...
Which brings us to the point, because next September a new opportunity will spring forth that most seniors are currently unaware of. Now don't worry, applications aren't due for two weeks yet so there's still plenty of time, and the lone requirement is the ability to guzzle a six-pack while watching the Gong Show...