Word: schwartzes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boris Pushkarev, vice president of New York's Regional Plan Association: "It's easy to continue trend lines. It's hard to predict changes in trends." Translation: it is hard to know what is going to happen. The '70s were especially hard, according to Peter Schwartz, head of S.R.I, (formerly Stanford Research Institute) International Futures Group, because they featured so many "low probability events." Translation: forecasters, just like ordinary people, are finding out that life is full of surprises...
Benjamin I. Schwartz, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, was not impressed with North Korea's offer. "My first inclination is not to overplay it. The proposal could simply be a reaction to the current political and economic instability in South Korea, a move calculated to create further instability...
...Schwartz said should the talks ever occur, any ensuing resolutions would have real significance. "Merely proposing the talks was nothing new," he added...
Such American authors as Elizabeth Bishop, John Dos Passos, Delmore Schwartz, Genevieve Taggard, James Agee and William Carlos Williams were published in the magazine, in addition to a variety of lesser lights. A key function of Partisan Review-- and, indeed, other "little" magazines of its ilk--was that of giving play to the unknown, struggling young writer. The magazine thus brought a panoply of young talent to the fore which might otherwise have gone unrecognized...