Word: swap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Halfway down Fleet Street, London's Newspaper Row, stands an oasis named El Vino. There, over vintage wines and aged whisky, reporters and editors swap the stories that tough British libel laws discourage them from printing. One of the most durable topics over the past few years has been the flamboyant personality and liberal accounting methods of Captain Robert Maxwell, 46, who built tiny Pergamon Press into a major scientific publishing house. Among financial editors there was a common conviction that the Czech-born publisher, who won a military cross while fighting with the British in World...
What Toffler calls "a fire storm of change" leaves in its wake "all sorts of curious social flora-from psychedelic churches and 'free universities' to science cities in the Arctic and wife-swap clubs in California." With Yeatsian gloom, he adds: "It breeds odd personalities, too: children who at twelve are no longer childlike; adults who at 50 are children of twelve. There are anarchists who, beneath their dirty denim shirts, are outrageous conformists, and conformists who, beneath their button-down collars, are outrageous anarchists. There are married priests and atheist ministers and Jewish Zen Buddhists. We have...
...festivities began a day ahead of time as early arrivals gathered in the Deep River Inn, a bar on Main Street, to shout greetings, swap tales and compare instruments above the din of indoor fifing. Drummers, however, are usually kind enough not to play their instruments indoors; instead they rattle their sticks on the Formica tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must...
...teachers off the job and one-third of its 650,000 students out of class, was called despite an earlier board offer of a 5% wage hike. The striking teachers insisted that the students must profit too. But the school board is reluctant to make the swap without hearing from those who stayed on the job and thus did not vote on the raise. The teachers' selflessness, though, may have impressed Californians, who will vote June 2 on a statewide referendum calling for a minimum boost of $350 million in state aid to public schools...
Reporters are stirring collectively at other U.S. papers, most notably at the New York Times. More than 30 Times staffers, including top reporters and critics, gathered privately one recent Sunday afternoon to discuss morale and swap complaints. Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal says that no formal committee exists, and he has received no demands. But smaller meetings are continuing, and some approach to management is in the offing. One likely pitch: that the Times editors are out of touch with some groups, particularly students and blacks, and that their judgment about stories about those groups is sometimes uninformed. As a result...