Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police account alleges that Bunting "fired persistent questions" about the arrest at Patrolman Woodrow Curtis as he grappled with David O. Jones. This attracted a crowd, and Curtis told Bunting to leave. Bunting refused, and was then placed under arrest. Bunting could not be reached, and Curtis, reached at his home, refused to discuss the matter...
...Joint Account. As superfamilies go, the Mellons are remarkably unknown to the public. Thomas Mellon, the paterfamilias, worked his way to a law degree at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh) by doing odd jobs and tutoring less apt students. Soon after hanging out his shingle, he concluded that there was more money to be made in investment than in litigation. In 1870, he opened his own bank, T. Mellon & Sons. Tall, thin and austere as a Grant Wood painting, he wore high starched collars when lesser men had long since moved to sack suits...
...deal more). "Andrew Mellon was possibly the most brilliant businessman whom our society has produced," wrote FORTUNE'S Charles J. V. Murphy recently. "He was a banker who understood corporations and an investor who understood men." The two brothers were so close that they ran a joint bank account for as long as they were both alive. The brothers' philosophy: Bet on a man with an idea, taking a share in the business while making the loan; leave him alone unless he gets into difficulty; when he prospers, let him pay back the loan (retaining, of course...
What most captivates the reader is the fascination of discovering how her brittle sensibilities and flamboyant neuroses react to events. Her meticulous eyewitness account of the scruffy San Francisco hippie subculture becomes all the more engrossing for the mingled feelings of anger, pain and horror that the entire experience caused her. Miss Didion suffers constantly, but compellingly and magically. With testiness, she reports on the vulgarity of Las Vegas weddings. With sad humor, she tells of a visit to Joan Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. With annoyance, she relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia...
...with references from the works of authorities on human behavior. One is the psychoanalytical historian Norman O. Brown (Life Against Death), who argues that making money with money simply for money's sake is an infantile and perverse attempt to achieve immortality. But, Smith/Goodman says, Brown fails to account for the fun that can be had in mating dollars with other kinds of paper for "effortless" profit. For the happy few with surplus chips and the nerves to separate reality from sublimated desires and anxieties, investing can be a more stimulating game than working...