Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordon's citation reads, "Harvard hails a signally generous son, a business leader who sets a swift pace, exemplar of a quick mind in a sound body...
...pocket and stayed to make his fortune selling cars, but the referendum is his game and he has been playing it with skill and delight since 1963. He failed that year to persuade the Republican state legislature not to increase income taxes. Then he discovered a swift way to block the legislation: gather 7,000 signatures and put the issue on the ballot. He collected the petitions, had his referendum, and nixed the tax increase by a margin...
...World War II. The morning ceremonies that spotlighted the new graduates concluded with the awarding of honorary degrees. T.S. Eliot was among the recipients. Another was a white-haired man in a plain gray suit who rose in response to President James Bryant Conant's swift and eloquent citation: "An American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of the nation...
...Lucas recipe: bounty hunters with no morals; sleazy smugglers who will handle any contraband--including political rebels--and who don't pronounce the final letter of an -ing verbal; a barroom brawl with laser guns instead of fisticuffs; even a posse chase with spacecraft in the place of swift stallions...
...portraits illustrate a paradox: although faces are the most recognizable and memorable objects in the world, neither artists nor perceptual psychologists yet know for sure why we recognize them, or what makes a given face familiar. In the street, one scans a face and recognizes it from swift generalizations. No computer has yet been successfully programmed to make these generalizations; only the human brain, apparently, can both sort out and recognize forms as complex as those of a face. But Close's big paintings, each head 7 ft. or 8 ft. high, try not to make any generalizations...