Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management of the economy. Says Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro: "I still think he is a man of great ability. But he let himself get diverted by political slogans rather than sticking to his knitting." Adds James M. Howell, chief economist for the First National Bank of Boston: "Businessmen thrive on certainty. The President has bitten off half a dozen big projects, and all of them generate a tremendous amount of uncertainty...
...artists and writers thrive tax free on the Emerald Isle...
...swift vanishing of my older/ generation," Robert Lowell lamented in a sonnet not long ago, "the deaths, suicide, madness/ of Roethke, Berryman, Jarrell and Lowell." There was a justifiable pride in this facetious reference to himself, for while his contemporaries died early, Lowell seemed to thrive on middle age. He too had been humbled by madness-an experience he documented in Life Studies (1959)-but had survived to become America's most distinguished contemporary poet. When Lowell died last week of a heart attack in a New York City taxi at the age of 60, he was enjoying...
...feeling, apparently, is not uncommon. Some thrive on the atmosphere. But for many, you can tell it's going to be a long, hard year...
British Science Writer Adrian Berry is an incorrigible optimist. In The Next Ten Thousand Years he boldly disputed today's Cassandras by predicting that man would not only thrive but reach the far-off stars. Now Berry describes how earthlings might actually take that quantum leap. He advises the emigrants, literally, to jump into black holes...