Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these deductions are based on the theory of biorhythm, the fast-growing pseudoscience that is more fun than astrology and not as messy as reading chicken entrails. Biorhythm is now a multimillion-dollar-a-year business, serving more than a million believers in the U.S. The word is spread in books, newsletters, a syndicated column and shopping-mall computers that churn out daily charts for 50?. There is a biorhythm service predicting the results of professional football games ($99 a season), and several dozen companies supply computerized charts and such biorhythm hardware as calculator watches ($169) and a Biocom desk...
...Bored will decide that enough has been enough, and will let someone write something real and really funny, and a bit less unwieldy--HPT 230, perhaps. I'll come back then, no matter where I am, and review it; but you still won't have to listen to a word I say, since the review will be done completely with mirrors...
Coles's observations culminate in two main themes: entitlement and paternalism. His observations of the rich in Privileged Ones grow into a theory, even though Coles wishes to keep himself from over-simplifying or generalizing. The word entitlement, according to Coles, was first uttered to him by a wealthy man--a lawyer and a stockbroker from a prominent family who was describing a social phenomenon that he saw in his children. Coles has adopted the idea to "describe what perhaps all quite well-off Americans transmit to their children--an important psychological common denominator, I believe: an emotional expression, really...
...distinguish the classes. Poor children feel "narcissistic despair," while rich children feel "narcissistic entitlement," Coles says. And for someone who has often wondered how the rich and even some of the not-so-rich students at Harvard can act so often as though they own the world, the word entitlement lingers, suggesting some sort of an answer. Entitlement does not necessarily connote material possessions which "spoil" a child--a child can be spoiled and not necessarily feel that everything in the world belongs to them--but entitlement is an attitude passed down through the generations, from parent to child, which...
...each shop, the storekeepers make an offering to the lion, usually some sort of food and a red envelope filled with money. Lee says an orange seals the lion's lips with sweetness so that the shopkeeper will say and receive sweet words during the coming year. Tangerines are often gifts, since the Chinese word for tangerine rhymes with the word for luck. And lettuce enters into the ceremony because, in Chinese tradition, green is the color of longevity...