Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, Marshall, Hemingway, Faulkner, Picasso, MacArthur, DiMaggio, Joe Louis, all seemed to have been around forever and to have a limitless future. There was no room for small figures in the pantheon. An entire generation retreated into a posture of silence, pursuing their desires down a bland alley. Pop culture-film, comics, records and below all, TV-became the national pacifier...
...oceans." That signals an end to a view that has prevailed for 350 years: the fundamental freedom of the seas. It was first stitched into international law by Hugo Grotius, the Dutch jurist who wrote in 1609 that the ocean "is common to all, because it is so limitless that it cannot become the possession of anyone." The seas, he concluded, "can be neither seized nor enclosed...
...ordinary times, Alexander Haig might have become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or a top Cabinet officer or perhaps a corporation president. He has in abundance the qualities that are needed: intelligence, limitless energy, patience, tact and unswerving devotion to duty and country. Yet in the year of Watergate, these very attributes have landed him in one of the world's toughest and least rewarding jobs: chief of staff of an embattled, imperiled White House, where almost every day brings another revelation, another shift in a defensive strategy that seems only to lose. For a 49-year...
...spectrum of racing trainers, Stephens falls somewhere between the late Max Hirsch of King Ranch, a taskmaster who might run nine horses into the ground to produce one Triple Crown champion like Assault, and Rokeby Stable's Elliott Burch, whose patience with a thoroughbred is almost limitless. Possessing what Gaines calls "the intuitive knowledge of a great horseman," Stephens tailors training routines to fit each of his horses. With Cannonade, for instance, he has concentrated on long gallops, while scheduling generous periods of rest to keep the horse fresh...
...manager, puts it this way: "John Havlicek is what I always thought a Celtic should be." Indeed, in play and personality Havlicek is the classic team performer. On the court he seems tireless. "He is in perfect physical shape," says Auerbach. "The man doesn't sweat." With his limitless energy, Havlicek, a forward who will play guard when the Celtics want extra height on the court, often leads the famous Celtic fast break, racing downcourt to drive on the basket, shoot from outside or, more often, pass the ball to a teammate. Though Havlicek has uncanny aim with...