Word: sage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-intellectualism.' We can see it in such areas of society as disenchanted students, angry congressmen, disappointed parents, Gallup polls, etc."). Also high finance (the faculty, Schmidt says, wonders why Harvard has "suddenly become General Motors," while "faculty wives are just as vociferous about the weekly trip to Sage's as the ladies are in Southie, if somewhat more genteel...
...with this we see that at bottom Fairlie differs little from Newman, with his evil grin on his face as he turns to a page in the O.E.D., or from Schlesinger, aloft on a white horse and extending his lance-like pen. The precise-writing journalist, the university sage, the charismatic politician: in each case power is wielded by the few versus the many, and what each tries to pass off as a democracy is nothing but a literocracy, where the pure word, defined by those who KNOW, rules. That explains Newman's complaints about the deleterious effect...
...Money. Again, they are no more immune than the rest of the country. I am sure faculty wives are just as vociferous about the weekly trip to Sage's as the ladies are in Southie, if somewhat more genteel. Beyond this there are such vital matters as pensions, grants, foundation support, taxes, and the cost of sending children to school...
...flirtatious mystic who, in 1937, left England and Europe behind. He moved permanently to Southern California, where he joined another deadly, though higher-paying hustle. Between novels and essays he wrote film scripts (among others for Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre). Finally there was Huxley the culture-explosion sage of the '50s and early '60s. Often in mousy tweed and what looked like a snakeskin tie, he toured campuses and symposia, discoursing in silvery tones on coming ecological di sasters, overpopulation, Shakespeare and the way of the Buddha...
...fuss over foliage bewildered some natives. Watching the traffic creep past him, one old Granite State sage concluded, "After they go home I've got to pick up all these leaves...