Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tops 2722. He tends to dwell on his losses, even though he started out with $8,000 in 1977 and by taking his own advice has boosted it to $422,000. Charles Allmon, a rival newsletter editor, suggests that Frank is a ringer, a "riverboat gambler" suitably disguised by self-deprecation and a digressive academic manner. Frank replies that Allmon, who has lately kept his portfolios in cash, just can't handle the action anymore. He's got "gun-shy." Las Vegas is not big enough for both of them...
...have had to examine our self-reliance. When the U.S. was a fully committed member of ANZUS, we had two days' ammunition and no spare parts. Well, we have had to change that, and it has cost us. We have had to spend money for equipment that otherwise would have been provided by the U.S. on the former paternalistic basis. Our message is that our position on the nuclear question is resolved, and it will continue. We are disposed to be cooperative with great powers and small powers, but we will not do so at the cost of our nuclear...
Philip Larkin, the pre-eminent poet in English of his time, died, after a brief struggle with cancer, in 1985, at age 63. Soon afterward his diaries were shredded, as he had instructed, at the library of England's Hull University, where he had worked for 30 years in self-elected obscurity. His manuscripts and unpublished poems escaped a similar fate thanks to a contradiction in his will: one clause called for the destruction of these papers, while another allowed trustees of the estate the right to decide which ones merited publication. Given the choice between guillotine and press...
...musical merry-go-round is spinning again. Today Levine is the favorite to step into Karajan's shoes, thanks to his good working relationship with the self-governing ensemble during his regular guest-conducting stints. Other possible contenders: Maazel, the Boston Symphony's Seiji Ozawa, Philadelphia's Muti and, farther afield, Leonard Bernstein, now a freelance guest conductor. What marks the new sweepstakes is the increasing desperation with which orchestras pursue the same handful of podium personalities. It is | not that there are too few good conductors, but that there are so few who meet the economic requirements: a hefty...
What did him in? For the Victorians, the growing belief that his piety was hypocritical. More seriously, Reni's frequent combination of tepid high- mindedness and relentless self-repetition looked insincere to early 20th century eyes. The classicism of his languidly yearning saints, rolling their eyeballs to the light of heaven, seemed trite and formulaic...