Word: horizons
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...often difficult for an economic journalist to avoid getting bogged down in the short-term trends of the business world. But Alexander has a reason to keep his eyes trained on the far horizon: his son Brian. "I often sit and wonder what his life will be like," Alexander says. "He will have more career opportunities than my generation did, but the economic risks will also be greater. I worry about whether he will gain the skills needed to get ahead in the complex, competitive global economy in which he will grow up." Plainly, Alexander is a long-range thinker...
Despite the record-industry turnaround, no one expects an early return to the boom of five years ago. Says Al Teller, general manager of Columbia Records: "We're a mature industry. The huge growth of the '60s and '70s is not on the horizon." One reason is that baby boomers, who bought many more records than their parents, are now getting into their 30s and buying fewer records. But music executives do not want to think about those sour trends. For now, they want to sit back and listen to the sweet music those megahits are making...
Surprisingly, the most far-reaching change on Dartmouth's horizon commands the least student opposition. In 1972 Dartmouth instituted the Dartmouth Plan for Year-Round Operations, which gave students complete flexibility in scheduling their four years at college. The Plan broke the academic year down into four quarters, students were required to attend school for only 11 of the 16 quarters that would comprise their undergraduate tenure. With the exception of one required summer quarter students could build their vacations around anything from job opportunities to travel abroad or special studies...
...Maria had just died of consumption. The paint is crusted, layer over layer, like mortar; even the grass and mallows in the foreground seem fossilized, and the broken tower-taller in art than in life-has an Ossianic misery to it. Then one's eye escapes to the horizon, glittering with scumbled white light, like a promise of resurrection. The whole image is as intense as anything in Turner: "melancholy grandeur," as Constable put it, the very essence of Romanticism and thus one of the key images of the English imagination. -By Robert Hughes
...August 10, 1914, at the age of two, Tuchman stood on the deck on an Italian liner, and watched two German warships exchange shots with the British cruiser Gloucester on the horizon. The ships soon disappeared, but, as Emerson wrote on another historic occasion, the shots echoed round the world. Although neither Tuchman nor the other passengers knew it at the time, they had just witnessed the opening battle of World...