Word: moderned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fifteen years ago, each time a handful of fanatic Crimson sailors wanted to ship out, they faced a trip to the MIT boathouse to launch their boats from floating docks. Now, at least, the Harvard skippers (350 to 400 of them) can use the Harvard Sailing Center's modern launching system...
...depravity of this attitude can't be dismissed as male chauvinism, however. Rather, it reflects Kosinski's commentary on the modern trend of individualism. We tend increasingly to draw away from others, to turn our backs on the world, on the country, on friends, and on family; ultimately, we will consider only ourselves...
...other tenor in modern times has hit the opera world with such seismic force. At 6 ft. and nearly 300 lbs., "Big P," as Soprano Joan Sutherland calls him, is more than lifesize, as is everything about him?ins clarion high Cs, his fees of $8,000 per night for an opera and $20,000 for a recital, his Rabelaisian zest for food and fun. "He is not primo tenore, " says San Francisco Opera General Director Kurt Herbert Adler. "He is primissimo tenore...
Macmillan, which had sales of $554 million last year, would be by far the biggest purchase that the network's aggressive new publishing division has made. In just two years, the division has grabbed up several specialized magazines, including Los Angeles and Modern Photography, as well as Chilton Co., which publishes a score of specialty magazines. Manhattan-based Macmillan would broaden ABC's book publishing base considerably. In addition to its trade, text and reference book divisions, it owns the profitable international chain of some 200 Berlitz language schools as well as bookstores, department stores, music and film...
Yeager dips out of Wolfe's pages as the undisputed king of the right stuff, the man whose no-sweat, West Virginia drawl sounds like the archetype for modern airlinese ("We've got a little ol' red light up here on the control panel that's tryin' to tell us that the landin' gears're not... uh ... lockin' into position"). He is also the book's main foil, a member of a vanishing breed of hot-rock pilot in an age of increasingly automated flight...