Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While they spend, borrow and pay off, Americans are saving less of their incomes than in a decade-only 5.1%, which is down from the 1973-75 average of 7.6%. This may be due in part to a feeling that people need not worry about their old age because Medicare, Social Security and private pensions will take care of them, but the attitude represents a basic change in consumer psychology. When inflation ran high in past years, consumers reduced their borrowing and increased their savings out of fear of bad times ahead. This helped fight inflation by braking an economy...
...Teen-age suicides galvanize a New Jersey community...
...Evert. He even went out for soccer at school. Yet tennis was obviously his game?that touch was always there, that feel for the ball that cannot be taught?and he made a superbly dramatic entrance to the big time: gaining the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1977 at the age of 18, the youngest male ever to do so, before losing to Connors...
This nascent "it," a combination of glamour and whatever it is that makes cookies tough, belonged to a teen-age girl from New York City, born Betty Perske and metamorphosed by Hawks and Warner Bros., publicity department into Lauren Bacall. She was the kind of sex symbol a fella could swap wisecracks with and then bring home to Mother. She became an instant addition to the fantasy lives of American males when she huskily told Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not, "If you want anything, just whistle...
...piece about Watergate literature, for instance, he speaks of "the firm jaw and the empty sentence. Any good comic writer can do you a Sam Ervin, but How ard Baker is a work of art." Examining the predicament of fiction writers in an age when all psychological twitches are resentlessly understood, he observes: "Since jealousy is now curable, like TB, we can't have people dying of it any more. A few rap sessions, some fearless touch ing, and a new sense of self-worth would have Othello and lago and Hamlet and Juliet back on their feet...