Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Money, or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Man is broke, but dreams of success. Man works hard, makes lots of money, seeks beautiful, high-status wife. Man discovers that success he finally gains leaves him, in the end, unfulfilled and unloved. The large balance in his bank account cannot ensure his emotional well-being...
...educational opportunities, etc.--is a factor bearing directly on the interpretation of test scores, grades and other evidence. To insist that the admission process must rely exclusively on racially neutral criteria and must exclude consideration of race in the interpretation of data is in fact to require discrimination on account of race...
Similar pleas from restaurateurs and unions defeated a harsher plan by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to put a $4 to $7 limit on the deductibility of business meals. The greatest irony of the expense-account imbroglio is that the people likely to be most hurt by a crackdown are not high-living executives but modestly paid waiters and kitchen help...
Unfortunately, London's two latest biographers and would-be revivalists-both Englishmen-take London the self-made intellectual almost as seriously as he took himself. Andrew Sinclair, an ex-Cambridge don, has written probably the fairest account of London's life. British understatement proves to be just what the subject requires. But when it comes to London's books, Sinclair labors. Prophets are fashionable these days, so he recommends that The Iron Heel be reread as a prediction of fascism and argues that London's inside-dog stories anticipate the behavioral theories of Konrad Lorenz...
...defendant is the plant manager of a new soft-drink firm that strongly resembles Coca-Cola in its formative years. Deep and violent prejudice shows itself as angry crowds clog Savannah streets during the trial. Here Kluger (author of last year's widely praised Simple Justice, an account of the Supreme Court's 1954 anti-segregation decision) borrows from history by making inventive use of the Leo Frank case. Frank was an Atlanta Jew - the manager of a pencil factory - who in 1913 was convicted of murdering a young female employee...