Word: watcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what one of his characters calls a "lawyer-like habit of being an objective observer in the vortex of other people's passions." Casey is not proud of his cold eye, however. Most of these stories are threaded by the narrator's regret about his role as watcher in the shallows...
Says Kalb, who joined TIME last December after serving with CBS News in Hong Kong: "I spent the past three years as a China watcher, so I had some idea of how the official Communist mind works." Kalb was not prepared, however, for the major role that religion plays in Poland. "Here is 1,000 years of almost unbroken living tradition," he says. "It is easy to see how the church, with its music and ritual, could have become such a powerful attraction for the Poles." Wynn and Kalb also found it easy to see why Pope John Paul...
...believe that serious learning comes from books. Teachers who have used one form or another of prime-time education, however, regard TV not as a "vast wasteland," in the memorable epithet of former Federal Communications Commissioner Newton Minow, but as a vast resource waiting to be tapped. One TV watcher who agrees is Minow himself, who now sits on the PTST board. Says he: "The most important educational institution in the country is not Harvard or Yale or Caltech-it's television." For better or for worse, it is difficult not to agree with...
This last accomplishment has brought Thomas more attention than all the others put together. A collection of 29 of his essays was published in 1974 under the title The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. No one expected much, least of all the author. For one thing, most Americans escape from the study of biology as fast as their teachers will let them; if they think of the subject at all, they are likely to remember rubbery dead frogs and the smell of formaldehyde. For another, Thomas made few concessions to the ignorance of laymen. He certainly...
...islands are as delightful to the philologist as they are to the bird watcher or plant stalker. All Hawaiian place names have meanings, poetic or factual. Maui's Waianapanapa, site of a 120-acre, stream-laced state park, is "glistening water." There are lao (valley of dawning inspiration), Kapilau (sprinkle of rain on leaves), Lanilili (rippling surface) and Waiakoa (waters used by warrior). Kaanapali is "rolling cliffs." It is comforting when boating off Wailea to know that the "waters [are] governed by Lea," goddess of canoe making. Lahaina is "land of prophecies...