Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good price, but it had just been bought by another American, who was paying an additional $500 to ship it to New York. Maybe the exchange rate is getting a little too favorable." Phillips, a budding oenophile, is hoping the healthy dollar will help expand another horizon. "In the U.S.," she says, "I was known for finding the best cheap wines. Here in France, I'd like to become famous for knowing the best cheap expensive wines...
...pain that I had felt when I tried to scale Heartbreak Hill. It was not the pain that I had felt when I was running past Boston College, with the Prudential Center only a blip on the horizon...
...TIME WHEN East Asian Studies, sushi bars, and visas to China are becoming increasingly trendy items, there reappears on the literary horizon an important and previously "lost" work whose intellectual voyage takes one back to the origins of the West's Oriental fascination. Raymond Schwab's book is a major critical undertaking whose ambitious task is reinterpreting a self-conscious moment crucial in the development of contemporary western civilization and thought. Quoting Friedrich Schlegel's quest, "we must seek the Supreme Romanticism in the Orient," Schwab's original hypothesis attempts, with compelling evidence, to trace 19th century Europe's Romantic...
...Washington in its spell. Her husband, who was rarely humbled, used to fall silent when his helicopter came close in beside the monument on its approach to the White House South Lawn. From the window of the presidential helicopter, the stone expanse seems to blot out everything on the horizon and reach to the heavens...
Today, Madson looks out over the frozen horizon from his home near the Illinois bluff by the Mississippi River with a sense of foreboding. "I don't think the farm culture will pass," he says. "Farmers want to farm. They will keep on until all is gone...