Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than 50 books of verse, fiction and literary criticism and in 1940 won a Pulitzer Prize for his spare, Frostian lyrics (Collected Poems), the classroom remained his focal point for 39 years. Among the students influenced by his gentle Socratic discourses were Novelist Jack Kerouac and Poets Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg and John Berryman. Though stunned by the 1959 scandal involving his son Charles, who had been fed answers on the TV quiz show Twenty-One, Van Doren remained a near-legendary figure whose guidance was eagerly sought by Columbia's pupils and graduates...
...Smile, Allen Funt, this is even more embarrassing than those scenes you used to show on Candid Camera. "It's almost a classic thing," said Funt. "You trust your accountant for years..." He did notice that the object of his confidence lived well: "He had an enormous wardrobe, paid his chauffeur over $200 a week, had a $60,000 bar mitzvah for his son." Then he heard a story about a man who was swindled by his accountant, and "that triggered something in my mind." After some Funt calls to banks, brokers and the police, Accountant Seymour Goldes...
Temptation. Abuses also seem inevitable as some unscrupulous merchants seek to capitalize on the fad. Allen Grant, West Coast editor of the late J.I. Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming, believes that anywhere from 50% to 70% of the food labeled organic is, in fact, no different from that being sold on supermarket shelves. Even if that estimate is too high, most experts agree that more "organic" food is being sold today than actually grown. "The temptation is obvious," says Mrs. Crissy Rose, a research analyst at California's department of consumer affairs. "The market is there...
...healthier when control of credit is as diffuse as possible. John Harris, president of Callaway Bank of Fulton, Mo., asks: "If you were a holding company bank and money was tight, who would you take care of first-your little guy from Boonville or your big corporate customer?" Adds Allen Stults, past president of the American Bankers Association: "Big banks may be more efficient, but is that all we want? After all, the most efficient form of government is a dictatorship...
...Allen denied that his decision was based on politics. He said yesterday that he rejected Chandler's application because there were other applicants who were better qualified and he found Chandler's personal behavior "questionable...