Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such integrity in the service of humane values has special meaning at a time when many educators are searching for ways to strengthen the moral standards of their students. In the coming years, we are likely to witness more courses on ethics and more attention paid to developing standards of...
IT USED to be that one had two options as a literary scholar: write the life history of an author, or sum up the meaning of her book. In either case, one's criticisms were considered marginal footnotes to the original works of "the canon."
Another bone of contention was the $7.9 million paid by Iran for U.S. weapons and left in Swiss accounts. Legislators contended that it is Government property, since it derives from the sale of federal assets. Secord insisted that it properly belonged to the "enterprise," meaning essentially Hakim and him. Under...
Johnson constantly bragged about his sexual appetite and apparatus, though he was such a storyteller that nobody was sure what to believe. The vision of that gargantuan figure rampaging through the sheets may have squelched more curiosity than it aroused. While President, Johnson was witnessed hectoring an attractive blond journalist...
Ad people consider the commercial a dazzler and the use of the Beatles a clear coup. "It's an interesting development," comments Stephen Novick, a production director at Grey Advertising, "and a very, very powerful tool." Others express some doubts. John Doig, a creative director at Manhattan's Ogilvy & Mather...