Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that one rarely loses money buying land. Even President Carter's insistence last week that the U.S. had a "good solid economy" stirred echoes of Herbert Hoover, another engineer President, who said two days after the Black Thursday of 1929 that the "fundamental business of the country is sound...
...Monday's city council meeting, something went awry with the high school sound system and in the middle of a heated discussion, the voice of Donna Summer suddenly drowned out the councilors...
...line with this, Sagan's watchword is a citation from Bertrand Russell: "William James used to preach the will to doubt." This is, of course, a sound scientific viewpoint. What's awry in Broca's Brain is that Segan doesn't practice this, save for one chapter. His essay on Emmanuel Velikovsky takes a once popular but porous theory explaining a series of converging mythological catastrophes and subjects it to an exacting analysis. This piece, three times as long as any other, is the most interesting, the most developed, and certainly the most scientifically responsible in the book...
...point of view of law and order and from any possible point of view. They are good types of government, and anybody must be stupid to think that you can ignore that in this constitutional process. So you've got the trimmings and the makings of a very sound foundation for a very exciting further constitutional development...
Will Lebow's Lear writhes in an imaginary straitjacket, frothing with rage, his voice audible even over the amplified thunder and wind of Boston Shakespeare's Horticultural Hall sound system...