Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Being the skeptics we are, we wanted to see Harvard perform under real pressure--none of that game stuff. So we challenged the team to a three-point shooting contest--smart move, Crimson--and last Monday we faced off against Harvard's sharpest shooters at Lavietes Pavilion...
...that street so fine. Strides easy. Long, looking right. Left then. Then ahead, then left...snap!...again, follows that little sister in the tight pants a ways, then back on the beam. Arms arc. Could be some old trainman, swinging an imaginary lantern in the night. Smiling. Stepping so smart. Rolls, almost. Swings his butt like he's shifting gears in a swivel chair. Weight stays, sways, in his hips. Shoulders, straight, shift with the strut. High and light. Street's all his, past doubt. And more, if he wants. Could be he might step off that concrete. Just start...
...faced with a world that is far more saturated with information than they could have imagined: scores of TV networks, hundreds of magazines, thousands of electronic sources--all brimming with headlines and hype, news and sleaze, smart analysis and kooky opining...
...values, that willingness has proved to be, even more than its military might, the true source of its power in the world. TIME thus remains rather prejudiced toward the values of free minds, free markets, free speech and free choice. This reflects our faith that people are generally smart and sensible; the more choices and information they have, the better off things will be. To the extent that America remains an avatar of freedom, the Global Century about to dawn will be, in Luce's terminology, another American Century...
...people who will be at the party in spirit only are Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, who started this magazine in March 1923. It goes without saying that Hadden and Luce were enormously smart and able. What is rarely said is that at that moment 75 years ago, they were so very young. That's what surprises--and inspires--me about them: their youth. On the date of Vol. I, No. 1, Hadden was 25 and Luce 24. As they assembled their 32-page magazine in offices at 9 East 40th Street--their equivalent, you might say, of the garage...