Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. A jaunty account of the taming of a poet, demonstrating with scurrilous charm that an artist is a man who expresses for all men their unbuttoned true selves...
...problem in America is: you are always the last ones to want to recognize that something is wrong. The ideals of democracy, good, country and family have been instilled in you for so long that it is taking you an undue time to account for the evil, unmovable, base nature of human beings. We are beasts and so shall we remain as long as somebody's wife is better looking than ours; as long as a neighbor has a better car than ours; as long as our shouting for a principle or idea is overtaken by someone who shouts...
...fact is that many designers and their clients are getting a bit bored with the bikini. Ann Cole, of Cole of California, notes that bikinis used to account for some 45% of bathing-suit sales, but now have only about 20% of the market. "The bikini will never vanish entirely," she predicts, "but it can't be bikini year in and year out." Tom Brigance, who has created more bathing suits over the years than anyone else in the business, complains: "There is very little a designer can do with a bikini. It's like plucking an eyebrow...
Last month the N.Y.S.E. belatedly began a computer-run Central Certificate Service, which will do away with the physical transfer of stock certificates held in brokers' names. These account for 75% of Big Board trading, but it will be next year before all N.Y.S.E. stocks are in the computer, and 1970 or later before the system takes in the snarled over-the-counter market. In the meantime, the prospect is that the stock markets will continue to be plagued by paperwork...
Center examines the Alsop record. Author Edward Engberg, a fellow of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, quotes the columnist's consistently upbeat comments on the war. In 1963, Engberg points out, Alsop wrote a glowing account of the strategic-hamlet program, which was soon to collapse in shambles. "The gamble," said Alsop, "has paid off. This spring, therefore, this war was being won." The following year, he was encouraged enough by the food shortage in North Viet Nam to declare that a blockade along with "further air attacks can progressively destroy the entire military, industrial...