Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This summer, as more and more children are rushing off to computer camps and adults are signing up to take programming courses in their spare time, the typical middle-aged corporate executive is gnawing on his pencils and growling for the personal computer to remain outside the door of his executive suite. They are found everywhere today, from dentists' offices to living rooms, but many top business managers simply do not want a keyboard and video-display terminal cluttering up their mahogany desktops-almost as if the machines were aesthetically distasteful. Says John Thompson, a vice president of Index...
...climatic personal duel at the play's end Here director Coe has made a serious mistake He bade his fight master. B H Barry, to stage the combat so that Hotspur repeatedly gains the advantage and could dispatch the Prince, but repeatedly chooses through sheer bravado to spare Hal and permit him to rearm Hal's combative skill is thus cheapened, and his eventual victory is made hollow, the result of mere chance. (It is, by the way, not known who slew the historical Hotspur...
...still dark when the priory bell announces the day. In the small, spare chapel built of fieldstone and used wooden beams, 14 brothers gather for their vigil prayer. They arrive singly, dressed in work clothes and blue Oriental-style overblouses. In the choir space, illuminated by a single candle, they wait in quiet meditation until all are present. With them on this weekend morning are some 40 visitors...
Some Reagan aides are hoping that Donovan will step aside to spare the Administration any possible embarrassment. But Donovan has other ideas. "I have no plans tc resign," he said last week. "I think I'm a political asset...
...sheer volume of his production may unsettle less prolific workers: he has produced some 90 books (eight since the beginning of 1981), mostly on sociology (Ethnicity in the U.S.), theology (The Mary Myth), education (Catholic High Schools and Minority Students) and history (The Irish Americans). In his spare time he writes a thrice-weekly column for more than 100 newspapers, and uncounted articles for magazines and scholarly journals. But nothing has brought him more recognition, notoriety and money than two novels, last year's The Cardinal Sins (2.6 million copies in print) and this year's Thy Brother...