Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.C.L.A. English professor and president of the Los Angeles school board, who argued for lively innovations in schools, such as teaching machines and team teaching. Richardson described Rafferty as having "one of the finest minds of the twelfth century,'' snapped that Rafferty was running against "the ghost of John Dewey" rather than discussing current realities...
Trying to imagine the Strindberg who wrote The Ghost Sonata, I think of a devoted Nietzschean suddenly confronted by a sweet little girl holding a lollipop and an affectionate puppydog. For an unguarded moment he is charmed; but the girl goes her way, and the play-wright reflects that perhaps the candy only reveals her materialism, and the dog her slavish dependence on pets. He becomes hopelessly despairing, then immeasurably compassionate. He writes a poem...
...government, preferring to wait until a special election for the empty seats is held Dec. 10. But in the long run, the big winner will probably be Kaunda, a teetotaling advocate of Gandhian nonviolence whose straight-up hairdo gives him the look of a man permanently frightened by a ghost. With his huge plurality, he can legitimately claim a mandate for a new constitution guaranteeing more power to the blacks, and he aims to do just that. "Our first goal," he says, "is stable government. Then we can press for constitutionalized changes and ending the federation...
...button-down collars, and has venomously turned the tables ever since. Hero Cotten is a kind of airborne Hamlet who has always eluded company and husbandly duties by taking off in his Beechcraft Bonanza. How he comes to terms with his hated father's cast-in-bronze ghost in belated monologues of love and loyalty is more embarrassing than heartening...
...late Henry Royce, a compulsive tinkerer who in 1904 built an auto so silent and efficient that it won him the financial backing of Charles Stewart Rolls, an elegant aristocrat who owned a London auto sales agency. In 1906 the pair began turning out the famed Silver Ghost, a car that stayed in production for 19 years. Royce was a fanatic on mechanical perfection, and his high standards have become the company's most hallowed tradition. At Rolls-Royce's auto plant in northwest England, Rolls cars (which are called "Royces" around the plant) are built with unhurried...