Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire and earth) proposed by Empedocles in the 5th century B.C. There was an early link between alchemy, technology and art, since ancient glassblowers and metalworkers were always trying to make base stuff look like gold and silver. Over the centuries, alchemy gave painters, notably Hieronymus Bosch, a rich vein of fantasy to tap, partly because its metaphors of change, duality and syncretism lay close to their own creative processes...
...generic that they are instantly detachable from the show in which they appear: perhaps his only universally known song is Send In the Clowns, from 1973's A Little Night Music. He studied with the experimental composer Milton Babbitt and still prefers listening to serious work in the classical vein. Sondheim's West Side Story collaborator Leonard ( Bernstein has called him "compulsive and excessive," not least in his commitment to the idea that everything in a musical must strictly serve the task at hand. Even so, Sondheim's songbook made up a splendid 1977 review, Side by Side by Sondheim...
...relationships become "Love Story," allwriters are Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, orT.S. Eliot, all politicians are FDR, allsocialites are Edie Sedgewick, all academics areJohn Kenneth Galbraith--brilliant, savvy, sexy,worthy of a bad Harvard novel. In the same vein,all depressions become suicidal, and happinessresembles a Soma Holiday...
...California Angels do have a funny way of looking at youth. Don Sutton, 41, still pitches. Bob Boone, 38, still catches. From Pitcher Ken Forsch, 39, to Second Baseman Bobby Grich, 37, one could go on for quite a while in this varicose vein. But it is probably enough to say that Jimmie Reese, the Angels' "conditioning coach," is 80 and used to room with Babe Ruth. And the designated hitter, Reggie Jackson, has just turned...
What are the implications of those changes for government and business? Drucker warns that all companies engaged in trade must find better ways to hedge themselves against sudden swings in exchange rates and other pitfalls of the international economy. In the same vein, he advises countries that they must give top priority to their international competitive position, rather than to domestic economic considerations. Moreover, he says, governments should avoid trying to tinker with the workings of free markets like the currency exchanges. Drucker's musings may be well founded. But they are also, unfortunately, the kind of economic advice that...