Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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National gridlock, the subject of this week's cover story, is a problem for individual travelers and large companies alike. With 18,000 U.S. employees, Time Inc. suffers along with many other firms from the snarls on roadways and runways that bring the nation ever closer to the ultimate jam-up. Gridlock costs billions of dollars in lost productivity, plus plenty of vein-popping frustration. The combination of close confinement, noise and often heat can turn a clogged encounter of the transportation kind into a waking nightmare...
Lennon, on the other hand, was too smart, self-deprecating and evasive to be an easy target for ridicule. Well into his book, Goldman drops a small complaint about the difficulties he had in getting at the truth of his subject: "Interview a score of people who interacted strongly with Lennon and you will get a score of Lennons, each one a man highly congenial to your source." This problem with evidence suggests why Goldman wrote The Lives, rather than The Life, in his title. The complications do not end here. Those eyewitnesses to facets of Lennon's life...
...what actually goes on in the schools. Most high schools still do not require students to meet widely accepted standards for math and science. On the average, a student takes only 2.3 credits in math and 2 in science to graduate, instead of the 3 credits in each subject recommended by the National Commission on Excellence in Education...
These days Walter Robinson has arranging on the brain. His opera, finished after eight years of starts and stops, must now be staged and led to its audience. The subject matter is a bit of a stumbling block. Robinson has elected to dramatize the true story of Denmark Vesey, an erudite black carpenter who plotted an 1822 slave revolt in Charleston, S.C., and was subsequently hanged for his trouble...
...steady with either suitor. Though both candidates secured their nominations months ago, many Americans still feel they know too little about what kind of President either would be. When asked if they knew "a lot of things, some things or not much at all" on that critical subject, exactly half the voters responded "not much" concerning Dukakis. More voters felt knowledgeable about Bush. But considering his long tenure in public office, he also suffers a familiarity gap: 29% said they knew very little about him as a potential President...