Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maturing of the baby boomers coincides with two other crucial factors: 1) the explosion of computer technology, and 2) the recrystallization of the American past and myth that is taking place under Ronald Reagan's shrewd symbolic leadership. For all the potentially sinister aspects of computer technology as a tool of surveillance, the brilliant new electronics can serve individuality in liberating ways. The era of mass production implied uniformity. People were said to "conform" in the way that products conformed to one another, each identical. Now computers, at the speed of light, can make distinctions among individuals. Computers can integrate...
...monument Country Star Conway Twitty has built to himself, including a guided tour conducted by a giant mechanical Twitty Bird. (Just down the road is Johnny Cash's House of Cash, a museum that is proud to display Al Capone's favorite chair.) The next day you'll tool eastward to Dollywood, "the friendliest town in the Smokies," where you can roast pigs over an open hearth, munch on buffalo- burgers and take a mountain trek on a 90-ton steam train. If you're in luck, Dolly will be there...
...even more important, I learned what to do when Harvard gives me crap, as it has for four years. So the next time I drop my metaphorical tray in the great Union Dining Hall that is life, at least I won't let myself feel like a tool...
...before one's betters, no matter how much one might admire the person or could use his help. Displaying integrity may slow one's course on the fastrack of success, but it's the only defense against the kind of rationalization that can turn an ambitious person into the tool of some fashionable doctrine...
...pictures. The images she captured are memorable enough on their own: a line of flood victims in Kentucky stretched in front of a billboard braying prosperity; the German bombardment of the Kremlin by night during World War II; Mohandas Gandhi reading newspaper clippings near a spinning wheel, the primitive tool he used to forge a subcontinent's independence. Millions of people saw these photographs and others equally striking in LIFE; the big news to many was that they had been taken by a woman...