Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Machiavelli defined his ideal prince as a head of state with a "flexible disposition, varying as fortune and circumstances dictate." Melvin Laird, the consummate congressional pol who served Richard Nixon as Secretary of Defense, lived by the rule that a wise man never says no to the inevitable and rarely encounters a situation that cannot be turned in some way to his advantage. In 1970, for example, a helicopter-borne rescue team penetrated North Viet Nam's air defenses but found that its quarry-U.S. P.O.W.s held at the Son Tay prison camp-had been moved to parts...
...examples, of course, are in the auto industry, which is now offering rebates of up to $2,000 on some cars to help move the vehicles off dealer lots. But businessmen of all sorts have begun pruning stocks. Stevan Buxbaum, who runs a Los Angeles discount clothing store called Ideal Fashions, reports that manufacturers are calling him from as far away as New York City and offering clothes at prices below wholesale just to move the garments out of their plants...
...Britain: Rupert Murdoch, the brash, bossy Australian who had bought the staid, venerable (197-year-old) Times of London, was appointing an imaginative and sternly independent editor. Murdoch hailed Harold Evans, for 14 years the chief of the separate Sunday Times, as Britain's "greatest editor" and the ideal man to reverse the daily paper's long, steep financial slide...
...Manor apartments in Hollister: "You get used to the small ones. You feel the rumble, but that is about all. Five years ago, the water in the pool flowed back and forth, and we had to fill it. But I try not to panic my tenants. We have an ideal climate here. We are close to everything. You adapt." Adds David G. Edwards, director of mental-health services in the county: "I have not treated a single case of earthquake anxiety yet." Edwards works in Hollister but lives 40 miles away in Monterey, out of prime temblor territory...
...things are constantly destroyed, of course- bombed, defaced, or else misunderstood; a conquering army may some day bivouac in the Sistine Chapel and take idle target practice at the ceiling. But excellence is essentially invulnerable. It carries the prestige of the infinite with it, an ancestral resemblance to the ideal. It is ecstatic. For an irrevocable moment, it gives the mind what Melville called "top-gallant delight...