Word: goode
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sounds like a good book. Sounds like unconventional characters struggling to survive in a steadfastly conventional world. This is Marge Piercy's latest novel, Summer People...
...comments by Campanis, who was fired a few days later, were disturbing in themselves (he went on to say the Blacks couldn't be good swimmers because they were not "bouyant"), but the misguided beliefs and attitudes they reflect are not rare in the world of sports...
...good are the Kirov dancers? There is little question that Americans are technically superior -- faster, stronger, more rigorously trained. Some credit must go to Russian immigrants. Balanchine revolutionized ballet by demanding that a performer move swiftly through positions rather than prepare for them and then hold the pose. Baryshnikov, as artistic director of the American Ballet Theater, adapted Balanchine's methods to the old story ballets...
Like the Land of Oz, technology has good and bad witches. The bomb is a bad witch, microsurgery a good one. Not so long ago, electricity was firmly in the benign category. After all, it delivers energy with great reliability and little expense. So essential has electricity become that more than 2 million miles of power lines, literally huge extension cords, criss-cross the U.S. But nowadays many Americans are increasingly fearful that the electric and magnetic fields generated by such overhead cables pose a serious threat to human health, causing everything from learning disorders to cancer...
...Psychologists contend that suicide must be discussed more openly and viewed without shame so that potential victims will seek treatment. Werner Spitz, a professor of forensic pathology at Wayne State University, regrets that "people are ashamed to admit a relative committed suicide, seeing it as a blemish on the good name of the family." Since suicide can be contagious, many families rightly fear that a son or daughter, a brother or sister, may be inclined to imitate the act of self-destruction. But "depression is a disease," says Detroit psychiatrist Karole Avila. "The way to rip away the veil over...