Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price of coffee soared; in 1978 lettuce briefly hit $1 a head. The next food to go wild will apparently be the hamburger...
...imperial dynasties, the Chinese defined the world as "all under heaven" and themselves as celestials of the Celestial Empire. "Throughout the ages," wrote Lu Hsün, "the Chinese have had only two ways of looking at foreigners: up to them as superior beings or down on them as wild animals. They have never been able to treat them as friends as people like themselves." China traditionally looked inward, suffering a foreign
...considered "reasonable and predictable." But then price boosts speeded up from Jan. 1 onward far faster than anyone had expected. The 1978 rise of 9.5% compares with 6.8% last year. The increase was particularly unnerving because there was no obvious, overwhelming cause-no oil crisis or crop failure or wild speculative boom. Rapid inflation came to be recognized not as an aberration but as a terrifying built-in tendency, a consequence of too many demands being put by too many people on a limited amount of national wealth. In an April speech, Carter put the point in a striking metaphor...
What is more, many owners at their annual meeting last week in Orlando, Fla., backed a proposal that would make their coffers even fuller by creating three divisions in each league to replace the current two. The winners of each division, plus a wild-card team picked on the basis of its record, would stage a two-round play-off for the pennant, instead of the present one-round showdown. The change would further despoil the classic simplicity and suspense of the pennant race, but harvest millions more in TV loot. The owners are expected to vote on the plan...
Savage Paradise by Hugo van Lawick (Morrow; 272 pages; $29.95) is a predator's portrait gallery, set on the golden plains of Tanzania's Serengeti. Having spent some 16 years observing and photographing wild animals in Africa, Van Lawick has a scientist's understanding of beastly behavior and a raconteur's way with anecdotes. But his long suit is photography: studies of sociable lions coping with the problems of love life and day care, graceful leopards stalking their prey, packs of hyenas engaging in gang warfare, and endearing cheetah families at play-all unique glimpses...