Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...that at least some of the terrorists are simply psychotics. It may be true that, as I.F. Stone wrote about the Weatherman radicals in the U.S., "the ultimate menace they fear is their own secret selves in their own parents. This is what they are acting out on the stage of national politics." The parents, in West Germany's case, carry the whole burden of the moral ambiguity in the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) that rebuilt the country after 1945. Some thing in the very robustness of Germany's economy seemed to the terrorists and their sympathizers profoundly obscene...
...predict a year almost uncannily similar to 1977-a solid though unspectacular growth in production, incomes and profits, another strong rise in the number of people working, but no great reduction in unemployment. Inflation will speed up from its current pace, and that and other factors could set the stage for a downturn in 1979 or 1980. But for the next twelve months, TIME'S board members unanimously agree with Arthur Okun, a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution: after 2% years of recovery from the 1973-75 recession, "there is one more year of good news in this...
...Weller corduroys and Boz cabs. There were innumerable plagiarisms, parodies, and sequels-a Pickwick Abroad, by G.W.M. Reynolds; a Posthumous Papers of the Cadger Club; a Posthumous Notes of the Pickwickian Club, by a hack who impudently called himself Bos; and a Penny Pickwick, not to mention all the stage piracies and adaptations. People named their cats and dogs "Sam," "Jingle," "Mrs. Bardell," and "Job Trotter." It is doubtful if any other single work of letters before or since has ever aroused such wild and widespread enthusiasm. Barely past the age of twenty-five, Charles Dickens had become world-famous...
That sets the stage for the return surge of current along the same pathway, visible as a flash of lightning...