Word: ripeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...killed himself by blowing his brains out." He describes Albrecht Durer's view of the Apocalypse as the day when "the sun would go out, and the heavens would be rolled up and put away like a manuscript." He reports that the mosques of Istanbul are "the colour of ripe honeydew melons." He encapsulates a special quality in Bonnard's art by calling it "an art about cultivating one's own garden...
FIRST, SASC tends to overstate its case for divestment. Although the Botha regime is a target ripe for caricature, SASC's frequent comparisons between South Africa and Nazi Germany are ridiculous. Until South Africa begins to round up entire Black families and villages and cart them off to gas chambers and ovens--and gets the crazy idea of trying to do the same in the rest of the world--such analogies are absurd and can only confuse those not yet among the ranks of the committed...
Thanks to the free-spending American consumer, the current economic expansion has survived to the relatively ripe old age of three years. Many households have spent all their income, and then some. Americans have confidently, even feverishly, borrowed money in record amounts to buy everything from compact disk players to country houses. The level of home mortgage debt has increased by 37% since December 1982, to $1.5 trillion. At the same time, the total of installment debt, which includes credit-card purchases, department-store credit and the like, has surged by 67%, to $548.7 billion...
...shuttle program should be devoted solely to research and that only experts who could contribute to that purpose should occupy the limited spots available on the hugely expensive flights. But after a highly successful series of missions in 1983, James Beggs, the NASA administrator, decided that the time was ripe to select a "citizen observer-participant." One clear aim: to build broader public support for the funding of the shuttles...
True, an "apolitical," bureaucratic council would be ripe material for more snide columns, and a model of stagnant unresponsiveness to student concerns...