Word: virtuouse
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...distraction. She appears to have a magpie's fascination with pretty much everything. The other media clamoring for our attention, from the movies to the Internet, are gifts she is delighted to play with. "This is a very exciting time to be writing fiction," she says. "It's so virtuous, completely eschewing all these things that could be explored. We're surrounded by images, and people don't seem to have done very much in that way, so I'd love to think about that...
...additions to familiar themes. Two sisters, Lucinda, 17, and Norma Joyce Hardy, 8, fall in love with the older man who visits their father's farm in Saskatchewan during the 1930s to study local plants and Dust Bowl weather patterns. Maurice Dove ought to fall for the beautiful and virtuous Lucinda, who runs the household in place of her deceased mother, but it is Norma Joyce, plain and engagingly clever, who snares his attention over succeeding decades, never as husband but eventually as father of her child...
...much hyped contention that the tech revolution has permanently repealed the business cycle. You've heard the argument. New technology would raise productivity. Higher productivity would raise workers' income without fueling inflation. Well-paid workers would buy more, leading to more production. It was going to be a virtuous cycle that spun only upward. Well, it just hasn't worked that way. "The biggest surprise," says economist Roach, "is that the business cycle is back--New Economy...
...heftier hybrids. In 2003, Ford will produce a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda Civic. Proving that hybrids are not necessarily environmentally virtuous, DaimlerChrysler has announced a hybrid version of its monster Durango truck that would get only 18 m.p.g.--a hybrid muscle...
...corruption and hypocrisy in big-time college sports, and he writes books that land like cluster bombs, sparing no one. He sees universities spending gazillions on new stadiums and practice facilities while stiffing undergraduate education, and he papers academia's ivory towers with the evidence. It's been a virtuous crusade, but Sperber made one blasphemous mistake along the way. In May he called for I.U. to fire radioactive, chair-tossing basketball coach Bobby Knight...