Word: sage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change is as much one of style a substance. Julia Child may shop at Sage's, but that doesn't mean it's a good place to pick up a gallon of o.j. Boutiques are ripe for window-shopping, but what if you really need to buy clothes? Gentrification is usually pleasing to the eye, but less kind to the pocket. And as time wears on, even the slick interiors and brass railings lose a bit of their gleam. The process just becomes too predictable--the porcelain tile tables and ceiling fans follow the influx of young professionals with clockwork...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who dismissed Calvin Coolidge as a Vermont hayseed - a view based in part on the writing of William Allen White, the Emporia (Kansas, that is) sage- is now being challenged by Thomas B. Silver of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. Coolidge, claims Silver, may have understood his times well, and, besides, his famous line, "The business of America is business," happens to be true...
...struck, especially in the title piece. The final strains of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony no longer evoke a musical metaphor for death's natural release. The long string passage now stirs images of the world's end. The reason for the change is that the sage has been caught up in the nuclear arms debate: "Words like disaster and catastrophe are too frivolous for the events that would inevitably follow a war with thermonuclear weapons... The preparations go on, the dreamlike rituals are rehearsed, and the whole earth is being set up as an altar...
Said Frederick G. Lieb, sage baseball writer: "It is doubtful if anyone in that crowd will ever live to see another baseball player hit his 60th home run in a 154-game season. I saw Ruth hit his 59th in 1921 and never thought I would score the game in which that record would be broken...
...They came out on fire," Sage said "It's hard to come back when you give up two goals so quickly...