Word: invented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game was created by Merton Olds, a Du Pont marketing manager with a Ph.D. in chemistry, and his wife Linda, a high school biology teacher. Noting the popularity of Trivial Pursuit, the black couple decided to devise a more educational game. Said Merton: "We wanted to invent something that would build black self-esteem." Their creation has 780 cards containing three questions each. Sample query: Name the most populous African country. Answer: Nigeria. The title Rise 'n fly comes from a type of winning hand...
...immediately tries to make an orderly sense of things. There is no way to explain away cyclones, of course, but experts may be called in to analyze violence in sports or to invent measures guaranteeing that such a horror will never take place again. Not that rational activity is unwelcome after watching tapes of the boys from Liverpool publicly assaulting -- and killing -- the boys from Turin because the Italians were rooting for the wrong team. How does the mind begin to understand this? Bring out Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power and learn that mobs love destroying things, that...
...scared, too. I've been unconsciously preparing to graduate with the Class of 1985 and become a Bashful Yuppie. Now I'll graduate with the Class of 1986, and I don't know what's in store for the year. Who knows what words Time magazine will invent between now and then...
...love God." In Ten Philosophical Mistakes Adler makes only an occasional swipe at Dewey and leaves God pretty much alone. But he takes on Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Hobbes, Marx and a passel of other post-16th century thinkers, whose common and "disastrous" mistake, says Adler, was to invent new kinds of wisdom without building on the ancient truths. "The modern philosophers start as if they had no predecessors," he scolds...
...close, with a salute to those courageous endurers who are committed to destroying apartheid in South Africa, and a question for dilettantes like myself, whose responses to the issue are studiously correct and sterile. If there were no South Africa to engage our ephemeral protest, would we not invent...