Word: intactness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what history finally says is not all that relevant. Pope Paul VI has done his work: he began the changes that were necessary, yet kept the great body of the Church intact. Perhaps his successor will be a more innovative politician, better equipped to keep the massive institution that is the Roman Catholic Church functioning smoothly. But he must never forget what Paul did: to what the crowds of cheering children, eagerly waving their flags in the October rain, and to do what he could to keep that childlike innocence in the millions of souls in his flock...
Finding their newly discovered stela too heavy to cart away intact, the thieves cut it into six pieces with chain saws. Then, along with the rest of their booty, they load the chunks onto burros and head for the border. Within days their contraband enters the flourishing black market in pre-Columbian antiquities, to be bought by rich collectors in the U.S., Western Europe or Japan...
...leaving in droves. Without being maudlin about it, Perrin laments their passing and the dis appearance of a way of life that knit hard ships and satisfactions together. He never pretends that part-time farming is the same as the real thing. But by clearing fields and keeping boundaries intact, he at least stages a holding action against total loss. And telling others how he has done it preserves that hold...
...under that title in a current Broadway musical hit, the Chicken Ranch did a brisk business until a Houston television station broadcast an "exposé" about it five years ago. That shamed the state authorities into shutting it down. Last September a shrewd lawyer moved the Chicken Ranch, virtually intact, to Dallas, where it became a sort of disco restaurant serving Spanish chicken, Mexican chicken, Swiss chicken and so on. Unfortunately for him, the Chicken Ranch's customers were not really interested in those dishes, and four months later the place closed down for good...
...slows down to a more manageable pace. Minor tribulations aside, on a hot Saturday afternoon at the beach or bopping around town the problems of the world slide easily out of mind. While ignorance, however temporary, is bliss, it remains ignorance. So if you want to keep your weekend intact--and there's no reason not to, for it will all be there to deal with again during the week--stay away from a decent newspaper. The idiot papers will fill your mind with puffery about craft fairs or "celebrities," but a good newspaper never stops giving you the news...