Word: upward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Readers of Social Standing will recognize that "what they are" is every American's confusing little secret. What they aspire to is known by every successful merchant in the country. But materialism as a measure of class has its hazards. In the upward rush, the market is continually flooded with knockoffs designed to create the illusion of status...
...opposition reflects a doubt that growth, once the watchword of the can-do American philosophy, is good. The skeptics ignore the reality that a slow-growth or no-growth philosophy could kill the promise of upward mobility. That may be acceptable to the middle-and upper-income people who dominate the antinuclear movement. But it would condemn the poor and the jobless to a perpetuation of their have-not status and could well endanger the future of American democracy, in which the social and economic inequalities of the free system are made tolerable by the hope of improvement...
...Sieh concludes, "a major earthquake can be expected there within the next 50 years or so rather than, say, the next 500." Sieh may well be right. His telltale marsh is only 24 km (15 miles) from Palmdale, the center of a region that has been bulging upward for 17 years in what some seismologists feel is a prelude to a major earthquake...
...about 25, still grips the modern imagination. These are the Carceri d'Invenzione, or Imaginary Prisons, which are the centerpieces of the National Gallery's show. Overpowering machines loom darkly. Ropes dangle ominously from huge beams. Towering arches soar, balconies thrust across them, stairways lead upward to rooms that are not really rooms but more spaces...
...Leonard Slatkin, 35, grew up professionally with St. Louis. Before his stint as music director of the New Orleans Philharmonic, he had moved upward, through the conducting ranks of the orchestra he will now head. He is an inventive programmer who likes little-known American works and singles out the less popular symphonies of the major composers. Slatkin's weakness, musicians feel, is his tendency to skim the surface of music and his awkwardness on the podium. Still, he and St. Louis know each other intimately and should grow together...