Word: wired
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wharton waxes brilliant when writing about Birdy's dreams. In his dreams, Birdy conquers his fear of being caged by the wire mesh and two-by-four boards of his own aviary. Birdy lives for the night when he can dream. Eventually, life imitates dreams and Birdy gains an easy, prophet-like sense. He even comes to dream within his dreams...
Like many Harvard-related stories, the article on Raiffa's course intrigued much of the news media, and soon The Boston Globe, Newsweek, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Detroit News, the wire services, and other newspapers and business publications picked up on the story. Why all the fuss? Raiffa's course pairs students off and places them into actual negotiating situations, where they use and analyze real bargaining techniques. One of these techniques--the one emphasized in the Journal article--is known as "strategic misrepresentation," or more simply, lying...
Already, Friendship Pass, across which Mao fed Ho Chi Minn's war against South Viet Nam and the U.S., has been stitched closed by the Chinese with barbed wire. Other routes are seeded with land mines or pocked with foxholes. A day seldom passes without Peking and Hanoi each blaming the other for a new string of incidents...
There is the expected quota of mock anthropology and imaginary biology; the most eccentric and striking example of that genre being a pair of crude effigies of horses, made from sticks, chicken wire and mud by the California artist Deborah Butterfield. There is also a hilarious piece of funkiness by a Texas sculptor, James Surls, representing a tornado chewing through the roof of a church; Surls' debt to that master of buckeye surrealism, H.C. Westermann, is ob vious enough, but the image has a wobbly comic-strip blatancy about it that carries conviction...
...poignant vignettes of Germans running, swimming, crawling to freedom or to death. Construction Worker Emil Goltz darts under a railway car, hanging between the wheels for miles. Two lovers appear to be ardently embracing by the Wall, but under cover of the clinch, the man is hastily snipping the wire. When the gap is large enough, the lovers rush through followed by a group of friends who were hiding near by. Others, in scenes reminiscent of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, perish within a few feet of the West, or are arrested and imprisoned because they seek...