Word: tively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uprooting themselves to come to the New World, he says, the nation's genetic stock and national culture should be heavily Type T. "If I'm right on that," Farley conjectures, "we should be an enormously vital nation with both T-plus, creative people, and T-minus, destruc tive people, both overrepresented." He adds, "We should--and do--have very high crime rates relative to many other countries of the world...
...Stack, professor of public policy at Duke University. "People today are performing their own version of the ghost dance, only it's not called a ghost dance any more. It's called being patriotic." Americans tend to deny that their own moods matter. Still, it is collective psychology--collec tive mood--that drives the economy up and down, and not the other way around...
...inform your readers that in my last book [The Doors of Perception], I "prescribe mescaline, a derivative of peyote, for all mankind as an alterna tive to cocktails." Snappiness, alas, is apt to be in in verse ratio to accuracy. I merely suggested that it might be a good thing if psychologists, sociologists and pharmacologists were to get together and discuss a satis factory drug for general consumption. Mescaline, I said, would not do. But a chemical possessing the merits of mescaline without its drawbacks would be preferable to alcohol...
...than-dignified conception through the notoriety and fame which dominate his later years. With Robin Williams of "Mork and Mindy" fame as Garp and a cast of unknowns playing the other principal characters, there may be a tendency towards pessimism even among the most avid Garpmaniacs. Irving's sprawling tive makes it easy for the cynic to believe that the powerful literary work will degenerate on film to a gory suburban piece of horror schlock, without traces of the charm and humor of the book...