Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pervading every aspect of life is a lack of concern and enthusiasm. The secretary asleep at her desk and the reply "Gone out" have almost become national symbols of bureaucracy. Government officials are likely to be uninformed and unable to make a decision. A foreign business man complains: "I've wanted to buy things that Tanzania supposedly wants to sell. But the deals have fallen through because no one cared enough or was able to quote me a price." Managers are frustrated by laws making it impossible for them to dismiss or even discipline incompetent workers...
...Official journals have railed against "stereotyped writing" and "wornout themes," authorities are again permitting the old customs of ballad singing and storytelling, and movies like the anti-Japanese war film On the Sungari River, banned since the mid-1960s, can again be seen. In general, the Chinese press has gone to great lengths to portray the entire 17-year period before the Cultural Revolution as a kind of halcyon era, when life was normal and the old veteran bureaucrats were in charge...
Later Chirac declared that no country had ever gone from a "regime of liberty to a regime of socialism and back again to liberty. I don't say that Monsieur Mitterrand wishes to install a gulag in France," he conceded, but he warned that France under leftist rule would eventually resemble the Soviet-bloc countries. Back in Strasbourg that evening, Chirac delivered another rousing denunciation of the left to 4,500 Gaullist faithful. Sighed one elderly admirer: "He is the dauphin of Charles de Gaulle...
...during the experiment. "We had nothing else to take up our thinking time," she says. Still, she misses the animals and the plants, and the continuing story about trees that she told the children at nighttime around the fire. "It developed into a saga, and now that's gone." The children are less nostalgic. They now refer to the Celtic experience as a "silly time...
...Gone with the Wind" this was not. "Born Free" might be more appropriate, as the women's swim team established itself as the premier Division II freestylers in the nation, on the way to a fourth-place finish at the National AIAW Swimming and Diving Championships for small colleges over the weekend...