Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story involved the type of heuristic thinking Church enjoys most. How, for example, have capitalist societies drifted into what Smith would have regarded as an unnatural combination: inflation in the midst of recession? Has Smith's "invisible hand" of supply and demand lost its grip? To find the answers, Church and Reporter-Researcher Valerie Gerry plunged into Smith's opus and the works of capitalism's later exegetes. "It was a crash course in all those people everybody quotes but nobody reads," Gerry explains. "We treated Adam Smith and our previous cover subjects, Karl Marx and John...
...grip weakened. By the time the Mexican government expelled him without explanation last July, he had little power left. When he was not playing golf, he spent most of his time at home where, in the end, his past apparently caught up with...
Twelfth Night. Every so often an actor retires a role the way a sports champion retires a trophy. He does not, of course, get permanent possession of the part, but he does get a lasting grip on playgoers' memories and critics' yardsticks. His successors must always suffer the ordeal of comparison. Even long-dead actors exert their possessive prerogatives. Praise a present Hamlet and some oldtimer will tell you that "Barrymore was the greatest." In Twelfth Night, Brian Bedford retkes the Malvolio...
...heartless mirth of an otherwise very dissimilar writer of the period, Evelyn Waugh. If friends got divorced, or somebody disappeared, or a girl slit her wrist with the top of a spaghetti can-well, the other revelers could not pause too long over the misfortune lest they lose their grip and go under too. Wilson himself almost did. In 1929 he suffered a nervous breakdown, probably from the cumulative strain of deadlines and tangled romances. While in the sanitorium he became addicted briefly to the drug paraldehyde...
...Mosley is saying "I told you so," he has some justification. Though it is easy to despise his tactics, Skidelsky argues that Mosley has usually had a realistic grip on trends in economics and history. Earlier than most, he understood the breakdown of 19th century imperialistic capitalism and the ways in which investments flowed toward cheap labor and eliminated jobs at home. As a Member of Parliament in the '20s, he attempted to introduce Keynesian theories into monetary planning. His social proposals in the '30s were not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's. Historian A.J.P. Taylor has gone...