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...golden age during the next two decades marked by disappearing poverty, an upsurge of productivity and an abundance of resources. Even his book titles- Thinking About the Unthinkable (1962), The Japanese Challenge (1979), The Coming Boom (1982)-were destined to pass into the lexicon of policy debates...
...spacious living room, well-lighted by two large windows that overlooked the Yard. I had arranged my desk and bookcase by the corner beside one of those windows. There, late every afternoon, with my roommates scattered to Lamont or some other sanctuary, I sat with my notebook, my Latin lexicon, my small grey copy of Catullus, and a radio--carefully turned to the gravelly voice of "Symphony Sid, your musical host who loves you the most...
...although the adjective papal casts an aura over any noun it touches, and is one of the favorite words of cultural coercion in the Midcult lexicon (like masterpiece and treasure), one should use it with reserve. The papacy may be infallible in dogma, but not in taste. And although the exhibition claims to show us in detail just what the changing relations of the Popes to art were, it does not deliver the goods. It contains only routine information and no fresh ideas about the liturgical, propagandist, doctrinal and decorative purposes of Vatican collecting, or the effect of that collecting...
...numbers by which the networks measure their power-ratings, share points, Homes Using Television, demographics and the rest of the adspeak lexicon-are confusing and conflicting, but few network executives can take solace in them. The networks' portion of the total viewing audience has fallen from more than 90% in 1977 to 78% today, and a further drop of 8 to 14 points is expected by 1990. That is almost a quarter of the total market in twelve years. CBS, the prime-time champ since 1980, saw its 1982 ratings fall 5% from the year before; ABC lost...
...Wyoming strip, the closer they come to each other. When the first finally explodes just above its target, its apocalyptic power is turned against fellow Soviet missiles. Its blast, and those of any succeeding warheads that manage to detonate, would cause mutual missile annihilation known in the lexicon of strategic warfare as Fratricide...