Word: grave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more time for news items. To Moyers, this is a mistake. Instead of one more snippet of news, he believes, the public wants some attempts to explain and clarify events. That was the tradition at CBS, exemplified in the old days by Eric Sevareid, who with handsome furrowed face gravely discoursed on matters grave. Sevareid gave Moyers two pieces of advice: "Appear regularly, and choose your own subjects." Regularity, Moyers agrees, is necessary to establish an acceptable batting average and to accustom people to your approach: "I'm not ideological. I change my mind a lot, issue to issue. Commentary...
...perceptions. His highest value is individualism as evolved by Western civilization. He skips through history to find something rotten in Byzantium, the "delirium and horror of the East." There is also the calamity of modernist architecture: "Ubiquitous concrete, with the texture of turd and the color of an upturned grave." The flip side of this disgust is nostalgia. Though Brodsky overwhelms with startling insight and provocations, he is most affecting in "In a Room and a Half," an account of living with his parents in their small Leningrad apartment. There, behind armoires and bookshelves, he built a cozy sanctum...
...with the Challenger tragedy. The solid rocket booster that is suspected of causing the explosion was made by Chicago-based Morton Thiokol, and no reports of drug use among its employees have surfaced. Nonetheless, any drug abuse among production workers in the space program or the defense industry carries grave risks. Says Frankel: "In this kind of ultra-high-tech work, the guy who makes the little adjustments, the screwer-on of parts, the bolter of nuts, is just as important as the project's chief engineer...
...Catholic terms the Anglican ordinations were defective both in the form (words) of the ritual and in the intention of the original celebrants of the rite. To this day, Anglicans themselves remain divided on the sacrifice issue, but acceptance or rejection of the concept has not been considered a grave ecclesiastical question...
...apprehension, hoping Gonzalez could pull off a miracle. From a military standpoint, Spain's withdrawal would matter little, since even now the country is not part of NATO's unified military command structure. But NATO Secretary- General Lord Carrington warned that a referendum defeat would result in a "very grave weakening of the alliance...