Word: hadden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magazine is a living thing. The child that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce brought into the world in March 1923 was squally, bratty, brash. The new smart aleck--its voice distinctive, sophomoric, self-assured--thrived, almost from the start: born lucky. The magazine sailed through the 1920s as if the decade were a breezy shakedown cruise...
...ended traumatically, for almost everyone. In 1929 Hadden came down with a strep infection that reached his heart and killed him at age 31. Luce was left to carry on alone. The stock market crashed a few months later...
...with its parent company, through a series of self-transformations, from an age of industry and structured authority into a post-cold war era of free-flowing information and diversity. And after 3,900 weeks of telling the story of the most complicated century in history, the TIME that Hadden and Luce created turns 75 this week--and celebrates...
...Luce and Hadden, classmates out of Hotchkiss and Yale, succeeded because they understood this truth: history may be complicated, as life is complicated, but the business of storytelling is simple. The young men said in their prospectus that their creation would be judged by "how much it gets off its pages into the minds of its readers." Sort the world into stories and carry them (facts, personalities, ideas, images, dramas, quirks, gossip, the details and energy of life) from Out There, where things happen, to In Here, inside the reader's consciousness, where stories turn into wonder, entertainment, cautionary experience...
...along for about an hour until the signal arrives. Then it kicks into high speed, only to lapse once again into plodding. There are a few unexpected and welcome turns--most notably the chilling sight of the first visual image transmitted from Vega; and whenever elusive, eccentric billionaire S.R. Hadden (John Hurt), Ellie's secret ally, pops...