Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snow predicted that this "major catastrophe" would happen before the year 2000. "We shall, in the rich countries, be surrounded by a sea of famine, unless three tremendous social tasks are by then in operation." The tasks: massive grants of food, money and technical aid from rich nations to poor, perhaps amounting to 20% of the well-off countries' gross national products for 15 years; increased efficiency in food production by poor nations themselves; and new efforts in poor nations "to reduce or stop their population increase, with a corresponding reduction in the population increase in the rich countries...
...must answer the question, Why ruin? In the existential phenomenological context of things (the only way we approach anything in the sporting world), destroying has some magnificent benefits that accomplishing cannot touch. First, destroying is final and absolute. Once all these Yale streaks and things are destroyed, they cannot happen again. Second, and most important, destroying is a wonderfully exhilarating thing to do--it is mischievous and healthy, It moves the spirit and the soul--it is direct, concrete and eternal...
...Yale students look and act blase. Their football team has been winning so easily, for so long, that no one questions the inevitable: Brian Dowling cannot be beaten. In the immortal words of one undergraduate, "You never know what's going to happen--but you know that you're not going to lose...
Another thing you expect is that a free fall before the parachute opens will give you a feeling of airy weightlessness, your body floating so far above the ground that your perspective on the land doesn't noticeably change. Such is not true; it doesn't happen that...
...existential weight of this experience is obvious. In an age that just lets you do this thing to yourself, you should let it happen...