Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daily schedule is significantly altered. There's no longer a regular afternoon set aside for the new Agatha Christie, no longer a weekly hour and a half for the Belushi Ackroyd Saturday Night Live. These are giant gaps in the landscape and to compensate for them, you shift your perspective and learn to work around them...
Will the computer's ability to do routine work mean that human thinking will shift to a higher level? Will IQs rise? Will there be more intellectuals? The computer may make a lot of learning as unnecessary as memorizing the multiplication tables. But if a dictionary stored in the computer's memory can easily correct any spelling mistakes, what is the point of learning to spell? And if the mind is freed from intellectual routine, will it race off in pursuit of important ideas or lazily spend its time on more video games...
Even Opel finds it all a little amazing. Says he: "Who would have believed ten years ago that we'd have computers in the home?" With his professorial manner and horn-rimmed glasses-he is known as the Brain among colleagues-the mastermind of IBM's policy shift hardly seems the sort to upset an Apple cart. The son of a hardware-store owner of German descent, Opel joined IBM in his home town, Jefferson City, Mo., in 1949 after studying at nearby Westminster College and getting an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. For ten years...
...NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Secretary of State George Shultz had got a reaffirmation of West European support for NATO's missile-basing scheme on the Continent. As his two-week European tour drew to a close, Shultz did his best to minimize the importance of a possible shift in the Soviet position. He said in Paris after a meeting with President François Mitterrand that even if the Soviets made a proposal along the lines now hinted at, it would not be "a very interesting proposition." During an impromptu news conference, President Reagan noted that the ideas...
Along with the old disputes about spiritual imperialism or the propriety of seeking converts from other faiths, there is a continuing sharp debate over whether missionaries should be mainly savers of souls or workers trying to improve the daily lives of people. Among Protestants, there has been a shift toward greater involvement with the basic economic and social problems of the people the missionaries are trying to reach. The change is exemplified by the efforts of the Rev. Dan Schellenberg, who is trying to improve the farming techniques of the same Kenya tribes that his father evangelized. Schellenberg...