Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Charles Chaplin. In his account of his flamboyant life, the great comedian describes his miserably poor childhood in London in fascinating detail. Unfortunately, when he turns to love, politics, and even his happy fourth marriage to Oona O'Neill, he scants both fact and feeling in favor of the name-dropping prose of a standard show-biz autobiography...
...Your account of the modern Supreme Court was incisive and well written. The vigorous support given to antitrust legislation by this Court could also have been cited as an example of progressive activism, helping to preserve a system of competitive enterprise. In my opinion, the present Court will be regarded historically as the finest since the days of Chief Justice John Marshall...
...give them something different, the two companies now churn out a confusion of products-bottle caps, plastic containers and paper cartons among them-although cans still account for more than half their sales. Continental is about to open two new plants to make plastic bags, has just come out with a new plastic motor-oil "can"-the fourth switch in its oilcan materials in as many years. American has just introduced tiny aerosol tubes that contain a seven-day supply of such items as hair spray and shaving cream for travelers, is spinning out a line of two-tone scented...
...Teen-agers now own 20% of all the cars sold in the U.S.; and 7,000,000 with driving licenses presumably find wheels when they want them. Teenagers spend more than $1.5 billion a year for entertainment. Though they comprise only 11% of the female population, teen-age girls account for 23% of all cosmetic and toilet goods sales (or $450 million worth each year), take home 20% of all women's clothes sold ($3.6 billion worth last year). The boys spend $120 million a year on such items as hair cream, mouth wash and deodorant. The number...
...preface to another man's work into a labored and debatable treatise of 578 pages-three-quarters the length of the volumes he was introducing. But in his autobiography, Sartre simplifies and shortens. The writing is austere, crisp, even epigrammatic. The result is a warm, albeit desperately sad, account of his childhood and early teens. And far more than most autobiographies, this is an inward-turning book, cutting into the living flesh of the man to expose the origins of his beliefs and behavior. Modern existentialism, it turns out, is rooted in the struggle for sanity of a spoiled...