Word: gutenberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Drug abuse, prostitution and assorted other crimes-minor and major-flourish in many immigrant ghettos. Young Turks and Surinamese are deeply involved in the narcotics trade around Amsterdam; addiction is common among young North Africans in Paris. Says Nordine Iznasni, 21, a resident of the notorious Cité Gutenberg, a collection of ramshackle, barrack-like buildings in the Paris suburb of Nanterre: "When you've got nothing to do and nothing to look forward to, it's a way to hide from reality, just as French kids do. Young North Africans are sick of rejection, unemployment and disrespect...
...Epcot travelers.' " Visitors enter through a building that is already a symbol of the center: an 18-story geosphere called Spaceship Earth. Inside they are whisked along a track to view a depiction of man's evolution in communications from cave to spaceship, glimpsing such wonders as Gutenberg's print shop, an Audio-Animatronic Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, and astronauts at work...
...thing in your letter slot and twist it into some kind of soft-cover Calder. There may be other benefits as well. Fast information. Ease of illustration. Graphic impact. "Video is the new printing press," Publishing Entrepreneur Nicolas Charney likes to say, but it is not necessary to bury Gutenberg to appreciate the possibilities of magazines on video and to spot, in five new entries, the beginnings of what seems to be a trend...
...million addition to the law school. A $32 million business administration building is now under construction, along with a $17.9 million university teaching center; a $26 million chemical-and petroleum-engineering building will soon be up for bids. The library, with nearly 5 million volumes (among them, a Gutenberg Bible), now stands eighth among U.S. and Canadian academic libraries...
...Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes." But how are such people to be put off, since they are often we, and the non-return of borrowed books is a custom as old as books themselves? ("Say, Gutenberg, what's this? And may I borrow it?") It is said that Charles I clutched a Bible as he mounted the scaffold. One shudders to imagine the last earthly question he heard...