Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kingsport, Tenn., rookie ball in the Appalachian League, is a typical first professional depot on the tour to the majors--"a one-mall town," as described by Gooden in the modern tongue. Youmans recalls, "The night I walked in, he was waiting for me. We just hugged and cried." The team's transportation around the mountains was a bus, of course, but for some reason the two friends found it endlessly funny that it was a school bus (no air conditioner). Every day Dwight called home. "Sometimes twice a day," Dan Gooden says. "One month we had a $460 phone...
...Louis Cardinals' ace John Tudor stared each other into stupors, but even Tudor picked himself second for the Cy Young. "Just one time," Tudor said, "I'd like to throw a ball like that." Leaving only the archaic record holders in peace, Gooden forced Herb Score to share another modern mark: two 200-strikeout seasons right...
...with disastrous consequences--mingles religious fanaticism with a rich man's easy disdain for money. Fittingly, the production ends without the comfort of catharsis, in a fistfight between the unrepentant Gregers and a neighbor, a drunken but discerning doctor. The incidents come basically from Ibsen, conveyed with a rawness modern audiences rarely see in his work. Even in this highly symbolic play, he makes a harrowing social realist...
...battle of Sidra was thoroughly modern warfare, fought on both sides by forces aiming at over-the-horizon targets and using highly sophisticated equipment. For the U.S., the encounter offered battle testing for two Navy missiles and the first opportunity to see how its planes could elude Soviet- built SA-5 ground-to-air missiles. A guide to the principal hardware...
...Drucker, 76, prolific author, consultant and master thinker on management problems. Writing in the forthcoming issue of the quarterly Foreign Affairs, Drucker, currently a professor of social science and management at California's Claremont Graduate School, claims that all the conditions he describes are the products of the modern world economy. It is also a world in which classical economic theory and traditional economic policy are fast becoming irrelevant. The U.S. and other countries, he says, will only continue to prosper if they recognize that fact...