Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I visited Harvard during my freshman year of high school, I was impressed. Posters elbowed each other out of the way for viewing space on the jammed notice boards. People strode through the streets purposefully, hurrying off, I presumed, to hear deposed European heads of state, having just left the seminar with anti-war activists who were on the cover of Time last month. Students in the 'estaurants kept up with the latest intellectual trends by reading ponderous tomes over late morning coffee...
...couple of random thoughts to fill up the ever-present white space...
...asking for the moon. We just want a gymnasium and enough classroom space," John A. Gilbertti, a member of the Fundamental School's relocation committee, said yesterday...
...years as a journalist, Walter Cronkite has covered his share of wars, assassinations, summit conferences and space shots, but few scoops were as sweet as this one. "There was a lot of desk-slapping and hot-diggity-damns around here," the anchorman beamed, after Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Premier Begin were shown agreeing, on Cronkite's CBS Evening News last Monday, to schedule their historic meeting in Jerusalem. Says Cronkite: "We knew we were on top of something...
There was a time when William Randolph Hearst, at his megalomaniac whim, could order his papers from coast to coast to lambaste Franklin D. Roosevelt on the front page, build up the career of Hearst's mistress Marion Davies on the movie page, and fill the intervening space with scandal. The Hearst papers have long since moderated their ways. No other newspaper chain nowadays commits such abuses. Instead, the damning indictment of most chain papers is that they have become flat, boring and timorous...