Word: topicalism
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...ambivalence Marten feels about the controversial treatment is echoed by the other illustrators -- Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Karen Barbour, Polly Becker and Sandra Dionisi -- whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...
...early that day, shortly before 1 a.m., a call came in from National Security Adviser Anthony Lake. "Got 'im," Lake said, telling Clinton that O'Grady had been rescued. At the various White House staff meetings that morning, the O'Grady rescue was a featured topic. Clinton's top aides, many of whom wanted to delay the budget speech anyway, saw the potential for positive coverage of the President if he placed himself in the middle of the pilot's story. They decided to postpone the speech so its impact would not be swamped by the O'Grady frenzy...
...There's a topic we often avoid, and that topic is death," Perkins said at the beginning of his address...
...example, when Kenan Professor of GovernmentHarvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 made a controversialremark linking grade inflation to increased Blackenrollment at Harvard, Bragg was not theprofessor's opponent in a Kennedy School forum onthe topic...
...contentious issue of faculty relations with the central administration is still simmering, as shown by a faculty discussion on this topic....Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes brought up two projects, the Inn at Harvard and the Medical Area Total Energy Plant, as examples of University-sponsored projects for which the faculty was not sufficiently consulted....In the future, the central administration would be well-advised to ask Dean Knowles and a few involved faculty members about such enterprises before they become reality....the central administration does not release enough records to the faculty, or, for that matter...