Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vorenberg noted that one of Sacks' greatest strengths as dean has been "the sense he has given the faculty of a very open institution. He is a classically rational person with whom you can discuss any topic...
...issues, setting the tone with a crotchety column of his own. The magazine was proudly provocative, billing itself "the battlefield of the mind." Some readers found it overly contentious and occasionally stale. The cover story for the August-and final-issue, for example, is on television evangelism, a worthy topic but one long since worked over by other magazines. Still, Harper's is a voice that will be missed. As Lapham says, "Its closing chips a little away from one's freedom to say what one damn well pleases...
...occasions TIME devotes a special issue to a subject it feels is of major importance: the American Woman (1972) and the South (1976) are examples from the past decade. Last summer the magazine's editors decided that the Soviet Union should be the focus for such a single-topic edition. Because of its inherently secretive nature and historical suspicion of the West, the U.S.S.R. has long been a nation much talked about but little understood. Following the invasion of Afghanistan, the Olympic boycott and the ensuing collapse of U.S.-Soviet relations, a new cold war became a reality...
Soldier of Fortune bulges with advertising, most of it aimed at the high-priced professional "adventurer." There are lots of advertisement for books, on every topic from how "to build a submachine gun in your home workshop," to "a revealing look at fantastically effective sniping techniques," the latter complete with a chapter on "Sniper Employment." Maybe you need German Paratrooper Boots? Or a knife called the Dwarf ("the bastard of the mating of wormeaten wood with twisted steel.") Or perhaps you are "ready for the fun and excitement of the M-19 A" submachine gun? All are available...
...front means more than politics though. Easyriders is honest about every controversial topic--sex, 130 mph motorized tricycles, farting and even death. A member of the staff, Ken Stambaugh, was killed in a motorcycle accident a few days before publication, and Easyriders' lead columnist, Spider, eulogized him in this fashion: "I didn't get to know the man--he'd just been with us a few weeks. He was working on his S.U. carb on the shoulder of the road near our firetrap the other night when a broad in a cage went off the road, smackin...