Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century Chinese Bodhisattva and begged her to leave it to him in her will. While a Dartmouth freshman, he tagged along on one of her regular tours of Manhattan galleries and decided that he would start "a tiny bit of collecting" of contemporary art. In his early 20s he toured the world, picking up curios in Polynesia, pottery in Mexico, carvings in Indonesia...
...Paris, and normally solid Gaullist. Women voters, who have made up another Gaullist bastion, gave 10% less than the 70% they mustered in 1962. Finally, and perhaps decisively, the young vote, which has recently eluded De Gaulle, was out in force: some 850,000 French in their early 20s were voting for the first time, and they did not vote for the 78-year-old general...
Cambridge Outcast. Capp denies that he has become reactionary since becoming rich. "I was making $150,000 a year while I was still in my 20s," he says. "My job as a humorist is to find lunacy wherever it exists and expose it." For years he fought McCarthyism in his cartoon strip. "But lunacy has shifted-you can't rely on it. I find it on the left now, and that's where I'm firing...
...matter of this small, strangely schizophrenic novel literally becomes the colonel's own sentences, his semifictional forays into his own Aussie boyhood during the '20s and '30s. Gingerly he launches into an account of life with his upper-class Sydney family: a barrister father, a tennis-playing mother, "unforgettable-character" grandparents, a funny, Christian Science-spouting sister. The result is a tender exercise in memory quite touching in its own right. Even the Chinese interrogator soaks it all up with pleasure. Then he uses it in a hyperbolic scene that involves hypnotizing the colonel and forcing...
...retains a 40% interest in the firm. The remaining 60% is held by Stein and his associates, who signed personal checks for $1,800-000 in capital. In staffing Standard & Poor's/ InterCapital, Stein expects to emphasize youth, even to the point of hiring managers in their 20s. "Young men are more able to spot opportunities," says he. "They don't wear blinkers...