Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are some things that aren't so good--a long, predictable article by Barry Commoner on Carter's energy plan, claiming the sun is the solution. And the interview with Vernon Jordan, director of the National Urban League, is alternately sad and boring. Boring because Jordan refuses to answer questions, playing cagey. Sad because he still doesn't realize that Jimmy Carter was elected as a total outsider, and while he may have a moral commitment to the blacks who elected him he doesn't have a political commitment, because he knows better than anyone else that they really...
...martinis (5 to 1) and when things went well (or badly) had three. The ghost of De Voto is walking the land, recalling the poetry in the first martini: "The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted . . . your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart . . . the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going...
This year's World Series could not have pitted against each other two teams, the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees, that were more disparate. The Dodgers represent old-style baseball under a California sun. Nurtured on the Dodger farm system to live by simple virtues, they respect their owner, love their manager and hit home runs. The Yankees reflect the clamor and chaos of New York City. High-powered and high-salaried, they are as disputatious, selfish and disdainful of each other as they are talented-a galaxy of stars, singularly burning with a hard, cold light...
Just before the Dartmouth game, something did. Coach Joe Restic moved Jim Curry back to the kick-off slot while a disappointed Bosnic looked on from the bench. Did this mean that Bosnic's placekicking days were also over? Had the sun set on his varsity career before it had really gotten off the ground...
...alas, Hirsch contends, the sun may be setting on the field of economics. As the link between material goods and human happiness deteriorates, the discipline diminishes in importance, although Hirsch, an economist himself, never goes so far as to say that the link has been totally severed. But the more affluent a society becomes, the less people care about material goods as an end in themselves. Instead, people desire goods primarily as a way of acquiring status...