Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Named by Mattingly after "the friendly ghost" of cartoon fame, because, he says, the TV images of astronauts on the moon look like apparitions...
...doesn't come. It isn't here, and they go numbly away feeling cheated. By the time they're back on the plane they're angry, as if Los Angeles were some ghost town, a big empty movie set merely masquerading as a city. Of course they have missed the point. Los Angeles does have its own charged-up inner life and soul. It just isn't out on the sidewalks waiting for them. It lurks in a very strange place: under the hood of the automobile...
...Zorba, where the commentator's role was taken over by the musical's entire ensemble: Company, which the cane-stomping choreography of a number like Cabaret's "Wilkommen" reappears in "Side by Side" and "What Would We Do Without You?"; and Follies, in whose case Cabaret's final ghost-ridden moments give way to a whole production hung halfway between the present and the past...
...months, the universities and the police equivocated on how to combat the threat. Then, last month, the counterattack began in New York, where State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz began court action to close down Termpapers, Inc., one of the largest purveyors of ghost-written reports in the state. By dealing in term papers, Lefkowitz's office charged, the firm has subverted the educational process. Shortly thereafter, State Assemblyman Leonard Stavisky, who teaches American history and government at the City University of New York, announced that he is introducing legislation to make the sale of term papers a misdemeanor punishable...
...hills and hollows with notebooks, tape recorders and cameras to study the techniques and graces of living on an all but vanished frontier. "Daily our grandparents are moving out of our lives," Wigginton writes in his brief preface. "When they're gone, the magnificent hunting tales, the ghost stories that kept a thousand children sleepless, the intricate tricks of self-sufficiency acquired through years of trial and error . . . all these go with them, and what a loss." What the students brought back could have been as tiresome as any other high school magazine; in fact, Foxfire has been coming...