Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of the dollar calls into question the way the whole world does business. The international monetary system is a precarious structure held together largely by paste, baling wire and confidence in the dollar, since it is the currency in which most international deals are made and which central banks keep in their vaults as reserves. During recent runs on the dollar, the first signs of financial panic could be seen. World money markets now resemble the urban ghettos of the 1960s, when a random traffic ticket or barroom scuffle could set off days of bloody rampages. The most implausible...
What about the '60s, you ask. Sure, we all remember "I have a dream" and the civil rights movement dragging a whole society kicking and screaming partway out of its cave. Sure, we puddle with nostalgia over the hundreds of thousands who massed in Washington for the moratoriums against the Vietnam War. But those were the clear-cut issues, glamorous in a strange way; they were drama. But where was the institutional depth to deal with the more complicated structural issues, the inbred capitalist priority system? Check out your own neighborhood to see how far we still have...
...ever meet, with a quick wit, a dry Arkansas drawl, and the best sense of humor this side of North Little Rock. You can say that he had a passion for running the football, and for playing the game, that surpasses any passion most people have for anything their whole lives. And you can say that he had the most pure running talent of any back ever to attend Harvard University. And that he never got a fair shake here...
...Giamatti does, for his 1977 Harper's magazine article eulogizing Tom Seaver's relationship with the New York Mets the fall after Seaver was sold. Giamatti in fact proclaims that baseball is "a sport that touches on what is most important in American life"--a belief enhanced by a whole theory he says is epitomized by Seaver. "The sadness of Seaver was that he came East with a dream and somehow it didn't work...
...UNIVERSITY should change its recalcitrant attitude and respect the kitchen workers' widespread dissatisfaction with the contract. Food service workers, many of whom are older men and women with few other options for employment, as a whole receive lower wages than many other institutional employees, and few benefits to make up for their relatively low wages. Harvard's inflexibility has forced them to take steps to protect their rights, and students should give the workers their full support...