Word: punctually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israeli Consul General Ephraim Elrom, 58, a man of habit, was late for lunch. Disturbed, his wife Else phoned his Istanbul office. "Something's wrong," she said. "Ephraim is always so punctual...
Education, more than anything, is training for the industrial system: the same traits which make you a successful student make for your economic success: accepting discipline (e. g. being punctual), subordinancy, cognitive over affective thinking (emotions and full personal involvement are systematically excluded), and motivation for external rewards (e. g. grades, honors) rather than for the intrinsic qualities of the activity itself. None of these values make for personal fulfillment; none of these values challenge the basic precepts of our society: education conceived exclusively as work merely perpetuates the production of what Erich From calls the "eternal suckling"-people sapped...
Pollution is currently Tokyo's most heatedly debated problem, but it is only one of many. Despite a rapidly expanding and incredibly punctual communications network, subways and trains are packed at 250% to 300% of capacity during rush hours. Several of the city's wards are sinking below sea level at an alarming rate because industrial plants have drawn off so much water from underground streams. As if all this were not enough, geologists have warned that Tokyo is just about ripe for another major earthquake-and that at least 3,000,000 would die if it were...
...France's Rhone Valley, some 15,000 vehicles on auto routes to the Riviera were snowbound in drifts as high as 10 ft. Some motorists were trapped for 72 hours in their cars, and two babies were born in the autos before their mothers could be rescued. Normally punctual French trains were canceled or delayed for up to six hours by frozen switches, and by the efforts of engineers who stopped to pick up stranded motorists in the open countryside. The sub-zero cold caused power shortages in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and East Berlin streets were blacked...