Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's farewell meeting, Andrew Heiskell, chairman of the board of Time Inc., told the staff: "I would like to just remind you of the things you can be proud of." His list included "the courage and talent of the photographers" as well as "a sales force that had the ability to sell 3½ billion dollars of advertising." Most significant perhaps it included LIFE's determination to bring art and science to the public. LIFE's Picture History of Western Man was once described by Francis Henry Taylor, late director of New York...
ONCE, THOUGH, the library was a domain that all European households boasted. Even such recent memoirs as those of Lytton Strachey, Lady Gregory, and Sartre, among innumerable others, remind us that the class which ownnd culture owned the talismans of culture. No prodigal child of our epoch will reminisce about the wood-panelled studies where idle afternoons were spent browsing through novels. In my own impoverished library, which comprises less than a thousand books, I have isolated the older works from those ephemera which are the luggage of all students. There is a volume of Swedenborg, issued in 1868, still...
...random encounters consists the reader's true vocation. These works are capital invested in what Cesar Pavese called "this business of living." Obscure testaments to how eclectic our recorded knowledge has become, writers like Eddington and Vambery (I could name Leon Bloy, Jacques Riviere, and Paul Nizan as well) remind the reader that a multitude of others who possess little reputation have written in the same spirit as the reader reads: their interest was in the chronicling, the renovation of their own experience, and all of them wrote in the hope that such an operation would be valuable to their...
...make maintenance a preferred U.S. method of rehabilitation. Already some 60,000 of the country's 600,000 addicts are being treated at 460 public and private clinics in 40 states; another 30,000 are on waiting lists. As use widens, problems mushroom, and critics have begun to remind advocates that heroin itself, when it was discovered in 1898, was touted as a desirable alternative to morphine...
...foreign policy, trade policy is security policy, trade policy is domestic policy." After less than a year in the job, he is wielding more clout than any Commerce Secretary since Herbert Hoover. But, says Peterson: "I keep a portrait of Hoover hanging over the fireplace in my office to remind me of the hazards of ambition...