Word: rungs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life Is Time's Fool. There is a rough parallel between Shakespeare's day and the present. The Elizabethan view of man was being threatened by a triple revolution. Copernicus had challenged the earth-centered universe, Montaigne had skeptically consigned man to the lowest rung of the animal kingdom, and Machiavelli had argued that statecraft was a matter of the basest self-interest, devoid of moral principle. Modern man has seen Einstein throw a curve into the cosmos, Freud lift the lid on the cauldron of the unconscious, and Marx upturn continents with the doctrine of dialectical material...
...people are on approximately the same level economically and socially. They're scrambling for success. They tend to be new in the community and they're unstable and insecure. When they see someone else fail, in work or in a family relationship, they themselves feel a rung higher, and this is a great reason for gossip. I think socially we're flying apart-we don't meet heart to heart any more, we meet at cocktail parties in a superficial way. We value smartness rather than depth, shine rather than spirit. But I think people...
...Cornell team tried to assemble the most homogeneous group they could find, settled on 139 men, aged 22-32, who held low-rung executive jobs in a big corporation. Their type of work, income ($6,000-$10,000) and behavior patterns were much the same. They differed only in education: 55 were college graduates, 84 were high school only...
...added a charge of disorderly conduct. A police court judge fined him $10 on each .charge. Under Kentucky law, Sam Thompson's case was closed-no fine under $20 can be appealed to another state court. But last week the U.S. Supreme Court reached-down to the lowest rung on the ladder of justice, set aside the fines by unanimously ruling that shuffling was no crime...
...first" to be informed after the royal family; a little later, a third announcement was pinned to the gates of Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. Throughout the kingdom, church bells pealed, and at Lloyd's the famed Lutine bell was rung twice to signal "good news" already known...