Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, the fact/fiction bipolarity erodes some of the book's brilliance. The reader begins to doubt Morris even when he describes events without resorting to dramatic trickery. His account of Reagan's summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland is so vivid as to make it seem Morris sat with the two leaders. In fact, Morris admits he was not there; he went to Iceland later and, relying on interviews, "enjoyed the scribe's traditional advantage of being able to recollect emotions in tranquility." Morris' brilliant portrait of Teddy Roosevelt's rise to the presidency was of course built from...
...book, "is nothing new." But it is critical for cultural iconography. Einstein reshaped our view of the universe. That he was a flawed human being is not only fascinating in a tabloid sort of way but reassuring as well. It makes our heroes, even those of unfathomable genius, seem a little more like...
What price are we going to pay for giving this Viagra of the mind to our children [THE I.Q. GENE?, Sept. 13]? I'm not talking about the financial burden involved in genetically making kids smarter. What about the well-being of a child? Will children suddenly seem as if they are 40 when they are really 14? How about the mental stress that so many of today's geniuses complain of? Are we solving a problem for our children (was there one in the first place?), or are we only creating problems tenfold? EMIL VON MALTITZ, AGE 19 Buckhorn...
...that Purdy wants us to consider the consequences of our attitudes. But I think the anti-irony movement is a longing for an innocence that existed only for one moment in Timothy Leary's lab. And if my name were Jedediah, I'd be so ironic, David Letterman would seem caring. Or I'd call myself...
...things people just won't buy online, and one of them is a sofa. "You want to sit on it, feel the fabric, see the color, make yourself comfortable for a while," says John Baugh, senior analyst at Wheat First Union in Richmond, Va. But venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck conventional wisdom and open an online store...