Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOOD things." the up-and-coming assistant professor of Philosophy postulated cheerfully while scraping the jimmies out of the bottom of his dish at Brigham's, "must come to an end." Which is the attitude we must all take in the next few weeks as we reluctantly release our grasp on the Interim...
Thoughtful businessmen are just beginning to grasp the enormity of the change that confronts them. By contrast with the 1960s, predicts Arjay Miller, former president of Ford Motor Co. and now dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, the 1970s will bring "increasing emphasis-and rightly so-on public goods." By Miller's definition, "public goods" are those not subject to the private marketplace: education, welfare, subsidized housing, safety, parks, clean air and water. "The shift from private to public goods is a tribute to the private sector of the economy," he says. "It has done...
...local and central power in China. American General Joseph Stillwell, for instance, was furious when Chiang Kai-shek ignored his advice to reorganize the Chinese Army in 1942. "With the U. S. on his side and backing him," Stillwell wrote in his diary, "the stupid little ass fails to grasp the big opportunity of his life...
...gaucheries are being corrected. Press criticism is ebbing. Recently, he loaned his excellent collection of French Impressionist paintings to the Tate Gallery for an exhibition. During Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit to Washington last week, Annenberg stayed very much in the background, in proper ambassadorial style. His grasp of foreign policy issues still seems shaky, but his staffers acknowledge his executive abilities. "He runs the embassy like a chairman of the board," says one official. "He's one of the best organizational ambassadors I've ever served under." Insists Lady Keith, the U.S.-born wife...
...together during Orientation Week for pronouncements on how "special" we are glad-handed by proud relatives and deified by guidance counselors. we can use as many reminders of our biological spiritual identity as we can get. If we remember that DeRopp, like the rest of us, has a firmer grasp of the questions than of the answers, reading his book can have some value...