Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some experts credit modern technology with contributing to the gambling surge. Computers have made possible the instantaneous distribution of odds on any kind of race or ball game anywhere in the country; bettors can watch the performance of the horses or teams they follow on cable television. Lotteries sell tickets through player-activated computer terminals; churches and charities offer computerized bingo readers. "The new technology makes gambling much more accessible, and it speeds everything up," says Richard Rosenthal, a Beverly Hills psychoanalyst who specializes in treating compulsive gamblers. "It makes gambling much more addictive...
...modern engineering achievements, few are as complex as the nuclear submarine; only manned space vehicles come close. And as is the case in space flight, accidents are bound to happen in a global armada of about 367 N-subs -- 195 Soviet, 133 U.S., 19 British, nine French and at least one Chinese. In the 1980s alone, according to a recent report by Greenpeace and Washington's Institute for Policy Studies, about 60 -- the number is a minimum due to spotty disclosure records -- nuclear sub accidents have been logged, including fires, collisions and leaks of radioactivity...
Perhaps indicative of modern Japanese attitudes is a question posed by a member of the Japanese contingent to a Smithsonian Institution symposium on the ethics of whaling. The representative asked how a whale differed from a mosquito, not to argue that both should receive protection but that both are expendable. "The Japanese don't seem to accept the concept of sustainable development," contends conservationist McManus, "((the idea)) that there can be a middle ground between total exploitation or total protection...
...images of the Third World come from his tightly woven books. He once wrote, "I have no attitudes; no views. I have appetites and reactions, violent reactions." Naipaul claims he is now content to be a quiet listener. Readers looking for a verbal lynching by the leading chronicler of modern folly and delusion may have been disappointed by his recently published A Turn in the South. But what they got was far more than the standard tour of the new liberal Dixie. In texture and tone, the work is a departure for Naipaul. "I was not interested in what...
Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley H. Hoffman teaches several of the most popular Core courses. One of Harvard's most prominent scholars in a variety of fields, he teaches subjects ranging from France between the wars to Ethics in International Relations and Modern Political Ideology. He is known for giving great lectures, and also for being one of the more accessible of Harvard's scholars...