Word: freer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some observers believe the sexual revolution has directly contributed to women's restlessness and discontent. The liberated woman's adoption of freer sexual attitudes can get in the way of emotional intimacy, suggests Connaught Marshner, executive editor of the Family Protection Report newsletter in Washington. "Unless the woman basically coaches the man in how to achieve intimacy, he won't," says Marshner. "He has to be motivated and he has to be taught. If a man knows he can get you to go to bed with him, he's not going to bother to be interested in your personality...
...Pentagon accuses the Commerce Department of letting computers and other sophisticated gear slip into the hands of the Soviets. But advocates of freer trade point out that U. S. restrictions are tight enough to cost the country $9 billion in lost sales every year. -- Investors find profits by taking stock in bankruptcy. -- A new book tells how the Chinese vanquished famine...
Where Davidson's talent lies in the succinctly evocative, Kletzsch grants himself a freer hand over his composition, allowing the generous repetition of themes to broaden his canvas. Sometimes, as in moments during the first movement, 'moderato cantabile', the repetition tends to long-windedness; a series of triplet structures, for example, seem a bit too obvious in their last few recapitulations (especially after the piece's lovely opening, reminiscent of a Bach sarabande...
...sellers of stock and has found its way into purchases of houses, cars, jewelry, and college educations for children. In addition, many households have borrowed against their stock holdings. The more important effect probably is psychological: people who see the value of their investments rise feel richer and freer to spend. Though the stock market is often thought of as a kind of casino for the rich, an estimated 50 million Americans, or more than a fifth of the entire population, participate in the market either through direct ownership of shares or through interests in mutual funds, pension funds...
...American museums had to subsist on Government money like the Louvre or the National Gallery in London, all would shrink, and many of the best would never have got started. Names like Whitney, Guggenheim, Phillips, Freer and Frick attest to the role played by the private collector in creating the public institution. Today more than ever the one-person museum, named for the man or woman who assembled it and put it in its own building, is a ruling fantasy of the ambitious collector. Why settle for your name on a plaque in the Met when for a few extra...