Word: properly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides of the Atlantic was spreading, and new publications in the U.S. and England rushed into life to meet the demand for reading matter. James profited from this development, but he also, with characteristic hedging, deplored it: "The great newspaper movement of the present moment has, we suppose, its proper and logical cause, and is destined to have its proper and logical effect; but its virtues need to be manifold, assuredly, to palliate the baseness and flimsiness of much of the writing to which daily and weekly journals serve as sponsors...
...lack of heroism in modern life may be traced to our servitude to time. Save time, beat the clock. The only real way a clock may be beaten is to pay no attention to it, to rediscover privacy, cling to it, hoard it; to determine one's own proper unhurried pace. We often apologize for wasting time, when all we mean is that we have violated someone else's standards of progress...
Underlying the immediate dispute, I think, is a wider disagreement about the proper course for modern liberalism. I am devoted to the old-fashioned kind that says the best society is that which maximizes each individual's freedom to live according to her or his own values. Many who style themselves liberals today have exchanged that belief for adherence to a long list of particular values they think all men and women of good will must share. In that sense, they are indistinguishable form the Moral Majority and, precisely, "ill-liberal" according to the original definition of the word. Like...
Tsongas' story is at its most feverish as it describes his reactions to a reasonable Boston Herald story revealing his cancer, but headed by the screamer; "CANCER FORCES TSONGAS OUT." He writes: "The headline was crushing. The cancer story was out, and even though the story was proper, the headline would make the lasting impression. Forced out . . . How stupid. If cancer had forced me out, I would have retired three months...
...among the plant's 1,450 employees, though most of the town's modest frame homes have views of the plant's towering smokestacks. Even after the chemical's horrible effects were demonstrated half a world away, residents rarely referred to it by its proper name, preferring to call it "that stuff." Says Charles White, 59, a college official who lives a quarter-mile from the Union Carbide facility: "Most of us have lived around the plant forever. It's something we've grown to accept. We have been so used to hearing...