Word: soci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jonathan Swift speculating on his coming demise and of T.S. Eliot musing on cats ("Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,/ There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity"). John Betjeman, England's reigning poet laureate, displays a light touch at vers de société; Robert Graves is captured in several nonmythic moods. A couple of songs by Nöel Coward read less jauntily than they sing. Auden the anthologist did not let Auden the splendid comic poet into his book. Amis generously corrects this blunder...
Benmarl, a Hudson Valley vineyard, was first planted in the mid-1800s and replanted in the '60s. Its new vintner, who grows both hybrids and vinifera, is Mark Miller, 58, a former magazine illustrator. He has successfully financed his operation by forming a Société des Vignerons, a group of people who for an initial fee as high as $500, plus up to $50 a year, buy "vine-rights"-two vines-and are entitled to twelve bottles of Benmarl wine annually The 900 members of the société also get first choice on all other...
Excessive and Exaggerated. The tower's infirmities came to light just as the Société de la Tour Eiffel, a private and profitable management company, made a bid to negotiate a loan for the repairs that would be guaranteed by the city of Paris. The resulting outcry in the press appalled the Société. Scare headlines like WILL THE EIFFEL TOWER DIE? were termed "excessive and exaggerated." Still, tourism is down about 10%, while visitors scanned the struts with nervous attention...
...vault door of the elegant main branch bank of the Société Générale in Nice had been a problem for months. So bank officials were not unduly concerned early last Monday when its 50-year-old mechanism seemed stuck again. Then, after hours of unsuccessful tinkering, they decided to break through the vault wall-and made a discovery that caused consternation on yachts and in villas up and down France's fabled Côte d'Azur...
...failed to install any kind of electronic alarm system. To save on wages, he had even sent the night watchman home on weekends. Guenet's wealthy depositors were displeased, to put it mildly. On the day following the discovery, angry crowds clogged the streets in front of the Société Générale...