Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gifts are given to the Queen personally, just as she gives gifts personally," said that the jewelry might be worn by Elizabethan a suitable state occasion, such as a return visit by one of her hosts, and that the treasures might be put on display eventually. Some Londoners thought the Queen should auction off the baubles and give the proceeds to charity. After all, the Queen already has one of the world's most awesome collections of personal jewelry...
...latest energy shocks make a recession in 1979 more likely than ever. The downturn may also come sooner than originally thought, a possibility reinforced by another Government report: the index of leading economic indicators fell by a sharp 1.2% in January, the third consecutive monthly decline...
...sense, the Iranian revolution was an exercise in internal anticolonialism: a convulsive rejection of foreign influence that had, so a wide variety of Iranians thought, robbed their culture of its Islamic values and its natural wealth. In a psychological way, the revolutionaries were obeying the logic of many anticolonial fighters who, in the formulation of the revolutionary theorist Frantz Fanon, held that the "native" must be transformed into a free man through struggle against his foreign oppressors. In countries like Algeria and Kenya, the struggle was protracted and violent. In Iran, after a point, the army foreshortened the process...
...crystal ball and predicted what television will look like by the end of 1980," he says, "my judgment would be that CBS and NBC would be on top. But what I learned from Supertrain is that there really are no short cuts, no substitute for careful thought and movement in very deliberate ways. This business of coming in with smoke and mirrors and doing a hat trick is nonsense...
...only an inspired clown but also a perfect entertainer for TV's mass audience. Mork has the innocence and enthusiasm of a toddler discovering the world. But he is one toddler who can talk. Artless, gullible, endearing, he lets the audience in on every transparent thought that whirls through his head. His rambling is wildly unpredictable, in part because Mork talks not only to himself but to three or four parts of himself-and they talk back...