Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Womb and Grave. The remark is cryptic but not gratuitous. For the success of Searchers is a fine balance between observed fact and unobtrusive metaphor. The insatiable giant cod who cruises through Russell's pages not only passes ichthyological muster, but its instinctive cunning suggests a primitive form of wisdom, or even free will. Far above this predator of the deep, a white eagle inscribes huge parabolas in a futile search for food and a mate. Russell's details are hard and clear, but the irony is left for the reader to dislodge. The eagle-a cliche...
...rhythm of one year, Russell's gulf is an almost mystical union of womb and grave. Death is "quick, bright, forgettable." Life multiplies with an almost ludicrous optimism. Clouds of plankton feed small fish who in turn are eaten by flounder, mackerel and cod. Big fish chase small fish to the surface, where they are either gobbled from below or grabbed from above by shrieking birds. Shreds of flesh drift to the sea floor to nourish crustaceans...
...inflation and less growth for the economy this year than last. Gross national product should rise about 5½% to $985 billion, the CEA predicted, compared with the too swift 7.7% expansion during 1969. The trick, of course, is to keep the anti-inflationary slowdown from growing into a grave economic slump. Last week, stock prices, often an advance indicator of broader economic trends, fell to their lowest level since November 1963 (see BUSINESS). Still, Nixon told his news conference at week's end: "I do not expect a recession to occur." Thanks to his "real" budget surplus...
...same report, Archbishop Helder Câmara of Olinda and Recife in northeastern Brazil recounts the "barbarous assassination" of a 28-year-old priest. "What is particularly grave about this crime," he writes, "is the virtual certainty that it was part of a premeditated series." Last week the outspoken prelate visited Pope Paul in Rome to tell him personally about the "spiral of violence" in his country...
...called laughter. Laughter serves man well. It can relieve his anxiety and tension, pave the way to friendship and enable him to tolerate his own-and life's-absurdities. Laughter is vital in helping to define what is human: its absence is generally taken as a sign of grave psychic stress. Yet laughter itself has never been satisfactorily defined. "The laughable is what we laugh at," writes New Zealand-born Philosopher D. H. Monro in his survey of prevailing theory. Argument of Laughter. "We laugh because we have seen something laughable. That seems...