Word: gould
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the very rules of the game have changed, thanks to technology. The postwar transistor and video generations have grown up accepting the electronic media as legitimate sources of art. The late Pianist Glenn Gould was considered odd when he abandoned the concert hall for the recording studio, but to the rock generation there is little or no difference between stereo loudspeakers and a live performance. The first group of performing artists who have fully integrated technology into their acts have encountered listeners eager to celebrate their message...
...generations later, the longings have grown more aggravated and the real horrors have metastasized. Terrorism and the Bomb, the breakdown of the ozone layer and the rise of crime -- almost any news item will serve to drive readers to distraction. Manhattan Psychiatrist Robert E. Gould finds that horror "is extremely distracting. That is one of the main purposes of its popularity. In difficult times, in the world outside and your own world, you reach out far from yourself. Also, you can control that horror. You can stop reading any time you want." His colleague Dr. Herbert Peyser agrees. In horror...
...Gould called the ranking "totally artificial" because he, like several other professors, limits the enrollment of his class...
...most unpleasant," Gould said. "People pay all this tuition and can't get into the classes they want...
Although 600 students tried to enter his class, he admitted only 300, Gould said...