Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. The fear was not that Viet Nam had fatally sapped America's physical strength or irretrievably tarnished its moral authority but that the bitter experience of recent events might somehow have traumatized America's will. A front-page editorial in the Brit ish weekly Manchester Guardian bluntly put the question that seemed to be on everybody's mind: "Will defeat in Viet Nam tempt the Americans to tackle their own problems and let the rest of the world go hang...
...less than a month, the Disneyland-ish dream of building a capitalistic Viet Nam with American business know-how and money has turned into a nightmare. Last week, as fears of reprisals from embittered South Vietnamese swept through the chaotic capital and Communist forces regrouped an hour's drive to the northeast for an assault that could overrun Saigon, most of Viet Nam's American executives were either gone or packing to leave. Said one businessman: "It's almost better to go home now and come back to make a better deal with a Communist regime...
...motivations for engaging in Extension studies are too numerous to assess adequately, but the popular misconception ascribing them to dilettante-ish dabbling in a surfeit of spare time has, life most stereotypes, never been true. Today some 6,000 people draw sustenance and substance, practical exercise and professional preparation, daily enriching their lives and increasing their options, from 150 courses and seminars offered at accessible times by the Commission on Extension Studies, with the support of Greater Boston's finest institutions: the bright high-school student who wants to pursue a subject unavailable in secondary school, or advance further...
Written by Nicole Ronsard, 35-ish, an attractive Frenchwoman, the book speaks directly to women who worry about having dimpled flesh, "jodhpur thighs," "saddlebag buttocks" and other imperfections. These are caused, says Mme. Ronsard, by cellulite, which she defines as a gel-like substance made up of fat, water and wastes that becomes trapped in lumpy, immovable pockets just beneath the skin. Cellulite cannot be burned off by conventional diets, says Ronsard; even when poundage is pared away, this "superfat" remains...
...long been recognized that drinking and driving do not mix, but many pot smokers believe that marijuana has little effect on their performance behind the wheel. They are dead wrong, according to Harry Klonoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Brit ish Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. Writ ing in Science, Klonoff describes how he and his associates tested 64 volunteers to determine how pot puffing affected their driving. The test subjects-all between the ages of 19 and 31-were well educated and were also experienced drivers. They were asked to drive through a complex course that included...