Word: wow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven years ago Robert Woolf was an energetic young criminal lawyer working out of a cubbyhole office in Boston. Eager for business, he agreed to help Red Sox Pitcher Earl Wilson negotiate his baseball contract. A few fast deals later and Woolf suddenly realized: "Oh wow, this is an area that's been virtually untapped." Tapping away like a trip hammer ever since, he has become the most successful of the new and growing breed of sport lawyer-managers. He now has a stable of 200 pro basketball, baseball, football and hockey athletes. "I have to pinch myself...
Boyd finally was led to a point outside Washington (he will not say where). There he found some 1,000 pages of the Pentagon report. The Knight package consisted of an orderly presentation with occasional marginal notes like "Wow!" inked beside some Pentagon statements. On most pages, a slip of paper had been placed over the secrecy classification when the photocopy was made, blanking it out. But on a dozen pages Knight newsmen found the words TOP SECRET?SENSITIVE. At the Boston Globe, the pickup arrangements sounded so melodramatic that editors suspected a hoax. But they went along and received...
...heavy," mourns one male liberationist. "Like you gotta build a whole new way of seeing her and yourself. You have to fight so you don't slip back the way you used to be, because if you do, man, if you say just one word, then wow, bam, it's over. That's living terror, man." Other male liberationists display anxiety by complaining about the inhuman roles assigned to males by society. In Brother, a new Berkeley male-liberation newspaper, a man identified only as Paul writes: "We don't cry. We are machines...
Somehow, between all the landfalls, mini-histories are fitted in-asides about mutinies and scholarly lectures on navigation, on fishing, on map making, on sea chanteys ("Heisa, heisa, vorsa, vorsa, wow, wow," to quote one). The sea turns Morison into a lyric poet who sometimes applies looser moral standards to seamen than to shorebound sinners...
...same basic number that screws up almost everything that man attempts. The Uglies-greed, competition, false pride. . ." To combat the Uglies, Freund recommends self-discipline: "Don't try to get too big too fast, don't engage in competition for its own sake, dig what you're doing." Wow, man, self-discipline! Some trip...