Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate, Gertrude spent her leisure time in argument ("the air I breathe"), at the theatre and opera, and in taking long walks. To the end of her life, she liked walking; someone has said that she moved like a souped-up glacier, or like a mass of primordial mud. Though young ladies did not usually walk alone at night in those days, Gertrude knew she was safe. In fact, she promised to climb a tree at the approch of a masher--then drop on him and squash...
...argument is chiefly over how to achieve the 5%: by massive Government help or the resources of private industry? A.F.L.-C.I.O. Economist Stanley Ruttenberg would like the Government to do much more of the job. He wants a loosening of credit, a big (and probably unbalanced) budget, with huge federal school, housing and other programs to make full employment. What about inflation? No problem, say the spenders. But what may be a problem is borrowing funds to finance the spending (see State of Business...
...most convincing argument against government intervention is the industrial lessons of the last few years. Booms in hifi, boating, photography, travel, frozen and gourmet foods, all come from relatively new things that tempted consumers to part with their cash. This is the real road to growth, the innovation of exciting and useful new products and industries that Government alone cannot start. It can only provide the incentive for business to improve itself. As Harvard's Slichter says: "You can't expand without demand for the product. We need less sales talk, less hot air and better quality...
...argument that it would be needlessly wasteful to match Soviet ICBMs with Atlases and Titans is convincing, but if the U.S. is not going to match the U.S.S.R. "missile for missile" during the next few years, the Administration has two urgent tasks cut out for it. One is to convince the world-Communists, neutralists, allies and the U.S.'s own citizens -that the missile gap will not mean a defense gap. The other is to push Minuteman and Polaris as fast as funds and priorities can push them. If there must be a missile gap, however efficiently...
...mental-hospital attendant named Peter Orlovsky, 25, who writes poetry (I talk to the fire hydrant, asking: "Do you have bigger tears than I do?"); the other was Gregory Corso, 28, a shaggy, dark little man who boasts that he has never combed his hair-and never gets an argument. Corso, also a poet, will be remembered for his lines...