Word: allenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject of that accolade? Allen Ginsberg? Bob Dylan? John Lennon? No; a German raveler of spiritual mysteries named Hermann Hesse, who died in 1962 at 85. His champion was Thomas Mann, and he was reflecting the impact of Hesse's 1919 novel, Demian, on German youth. Today Hesse is no longer so ardently esteemed in his native country, but in the past decade in the U.S. he has steadily risen to the status of a literary cult figure. College students rank him in the pantheon of literary gurus with Dostoevsky, Tolkien and Golding. In hippie hovels, those...
Wacky, rapid-fire comedy is not new to TV. Indeed, Laugh-In's attack has touches of the late Ernie Kovacs, smatterings of early Sid Caesar and Steve Allen, and a-pie-in-the-face splat or two of Soupy Sales. But on Laugh-In, the calculated aim is to create a state of sensory overload, a condition that audiences nowadays seem to want or need. Blackouts, slapstick, instant skits pinwheel before the eyes; chatter and sound effects collide in the ear. Other TV variety shows can be dropped intact onto a theater or nightclub stage, but Laugh...
...people." The problem, really, was a lack of accomplishments. Repeatedly lacking a quorum, the upper chamber ground to a halt several times. At one point the Senate went into a 1-hour and 40-minute recess owing to what Mansfield testily termed "a complex development." That development: Senator Allen Ellender's 78th birthday, which he marked by whipping up his annual luncheon of Louisiana creole gumbo for Lady Bird Johnson, Lynda Johnson Robb and other noted local la dies. A minor piece of farm legislation was before the Senate, and it could not proceed without Agriculture Committee Chairman Ellender...
Moving Along. For Boeing, which has recently run into some embarrassing design reversals in its supersonic-transport program, the 747 is moving along at a gratifying pace. In the 30 months since Chairman (then president) William M. Allen determined to go ahead with the project, Boeing has raised about $1 billion in financing. It has ordered components from 1,500 prime suppliers, cleared a forest near Everett, constructed a $200 million manufacturing and assembly complex and sold 158 of the $20 million planes to 26 airlines. Along the way, Boeing engineers had to lick serious weight problems that threatened...
...Computer. Brown Brothers Harriman saw to everyone's comfort with the best of banker-like touches. Computers matched the guests' characteristics to promote compatible seating at dinners. There was an armored car to carry valuables from the Olympic Hotel to Union Station while Chairman William M. Allen of Boeing (a Brown Brothers client) entertained the group at his home after a tour of his company's Renton plant. Then everybody got aboard two 20-car Union Pacific special trains for the long run to Sun Valley, Idaho. There, behind closed doors, they took part in two days...