Word: franticness
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...your fascinating "Top of the Decade" issue [Dec. 26], you omitted an extremely important part of modern living -the frantic changes in America's vocabulary. The following are three areas of change and some samples: 1) new words: cybernetics, zap, finalize, multimedia; 2) old words rediscovered and popularized: ambience, relevant, charisma, geriatric, black, guru, spectrum, style of life (plus four-letter words formerly heard only in an Army barrack or pool hall); 3) common words with radically changed meanings: trip, pig, square, soul...
Vamp: "It won't be my good unless you really want to" A few minutes later, while the duo make frantic love on the floor...
...late Harvard sociologist, Pitirim Sorokin. By this he meant the glorification of pleasure over Puritan duty, of leisure over work. The '60s was a time of almost frantic experiment in sexual liberation; in the next decade, thanks in part to the Pill, sex will continue to be casual. But it may also be less frenetic. Divorce will be even more common, and the law may come to recognize term marriages, unions that will dissolve automatically after a certain length of time. Marijuana most likely will be either legalized or condoned...
...fungus, carried by the elm-bark beetle, that clogs the tree's circulatory system. But ever since the disease hit the U.S. in the early 1930s, every cure has failed. DDT may kill birds as well as the beetles; another pesticide named Bidrin sometimes destroys the trees. Frantic elm owners have resorted to such quack remedies as turpentine injections or driving galvanized nails into the trunks (in hopes that the zinc oxide will deter the fungus). So far, the only solution has been to chop down and haul away infected trees, a process that prevents the disease from spreading...
...frantic years in the '60s, London-swinging and otherwise-became the center of the world of fads and styles. Now the inevitable outburst of reviews of the passing decade has begun, and among the first is a book, Goodbye Baby & Amen (Coward-McCann; $15), by British Entertainment Writer Peter Evans and Photographer David Bailey. Obviously, Goodbye is no serious history book. But neither is it just a picture book with filler text...