Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jovial, friendly" social drinker. "I must get my way in all things," he once confessed firmly, showing a taste for the fanatic in himself and others (symptomatically, he regarded Abolitionist John Brown as "greater than Napoleon and just as great as George Washington"). Trying his hand as an espionage agent for the North in the Civil War, Pinkerton overestimated the Confederate enemy almost to the point of paranoia...
...credit-reporting agency in Mississippi filed an investigation by a field agent that quoted townfolk as saying that a female insurance adjuster was "scatterbrained," "peculiar," "neurotic or psychotic." Only after a drawn-out struggle and considerable loss of work was the adjuster able to persuade the agency to delete the words "neurotic and psychotic" from her file...
...helps make Manchester's series of family portraits a gallery of near-grotesques. Alfred ranted against "speculators, stock-exchange Jews, share swindlers and similar parasites"; then he borrowed from the banker Salomon Oppenheim to meet his payroll. Paranoiacally fearful of Socialist tendencies among his workers, he hired an agent to inspect even the "used toilet paper" for seditious notes. He also located his office above a stable so that he could inhale the "healthgiving" aroma of manure...
...something out of Inner Sanctum, is a newcomer's introduction to Manhattan's latest and most curious experiment in public entertainment-a theater without a stage show, a cabaret without food or liquor, a party without an occasion. To its proprietor, a 25-year-old former talent agent named Ruflfin Cooper, Cerebrum is "an electronic studio of participation." Others have called it a "psychedelic playpen" and a "McLuhan geisha house." However defined-and perhaps it can't be-Cerebrum is an experience...
Craig lives with his family in Van Nuys, gets top marks in the tenth grade of Grant High School. His father, a onetime jazz saxophonist, recently gave up his job as an insurance agent to manage his son's business affairs. A precocious student (his IQ is 184), Craig started taking classical piano lessons at nine, switched to jazz at twelve after listening to the cool, cerebral playing of Bill Evans. Soon there were other models: Peterson, Peter Nero, George Shearing. "For a while," Craig admits, "I sounded like those guys, but now it's my own sound...