Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Backstage, some of his staffers called their new editor "the Iron Mouse" because of his self-deprecating manner and his irresistible whim. Slowly, meticulously, that whim widened The New Yorker's concerns and investigations. The world that the reader now entered became far more real and gritty, far less trivial and debonair. To the untutored eye, The New Yorker was the fixture as before; the magazine's makeup remained unaltered. The glittering Van-Cleef & Arpels brooches, the Boehm porcelains, the Rolls-Royces and Mercedes still whispered their seductions from the sidelines. But, incongruously, in the columns that threaded...
...energy corporation, they say, could not add much to private industry's expertise in exploration and production. At the same time, oilmen raise the specter of socialism. "What comes next?" asks Frank Ikard, head of the American Petroleum Institute. "How about a Federal Livestock Corporation? Or a Federal Iron and Steel Corporation...
Once again Harvard received most of its scoring punch in the field events. Its most productive event was the shot put where Chris Queen heaved the iron sphere 51 feet 5 1/2 inches and Kevin McCafferty and Dan Jiggetts placed second and third...
...Iron Will. Associates remember that in 1949, when his horse fell on him, crushing 23 of his 24 ribs, Douglas was undaunted: he was back on the bench six months later. In childhood he confounded doctors' expectations that his polio-stricken legs would forever be useless. In addition, Douglas knows that a Ford-nominated successor might well tip the court into pronounced conservativism, a result that would seem a disaster to the old liberal...
...history is 76, and his physical handicaps are clearly greater than originally thought. The court is now prepared to settle in and operate without Douglas until he determines whether to return or retire. "I've known Douglas a long time," says one friend. "He's got an iron will and may never quit. But he's also very proud, and might find it difficult to carry on when he's obviously not the man he once was-when he can't walk onto the bench on his own power...