Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have it, "What is Styron's own attitude on racial questions?" Unless we are prepared to return to the Harriet Beecher Stowe school of social axe grinding, we had best leave off speculating on authorial politics and simply judge novels as good art or bad...
...talk fall flat. On a Portland television program, he told listeners his secret for staying trim. "I eat proteins," he said. "I eat a lot of cheese. Cottage cheese. I eat cottage cheese until it runs out my ears. And one thing I do that makes it not too bad is I put ketchup on it. I learned it from my grandmother...
Alas, no amount of schooling is likely to produce the philosopher-king who could truly handle a job that may be getting too big for one individual. And even the present system may not be so bad as it often seems. The electoral machinery is ramshackle, the campaigns absurdly long, and yet they train the survivors in many skills that are as necessary to governing as they are to getting elected: the skills of compromise, of horse trading, of creating coalitions...
...facts to please the masses, he would supposedly debase his own style. But with so many writers, from Truman Capote to Norman Mailer, plunging into journalism. Novelist Thomas Fleming (A Cry of Whiteness) has taken the opposite view. A bout of journalism may be good for the writer but bad for journalism...
...matter how much economists slide-rule the economy, many imponderables remain. One is the U.S. corporation and how it will respond to another swerve in policy. The surtax will have some bad effects for companies: it will cut into corporate profits and decrease spending for improvements. At the same time, the new tax ought to make some change in the tenor of company-union relations. Up to now, when labor negotiations are fiercer than usual, the advantage has been with labor. With full employment and rising prices, unions have been able to negotiate contracts with an average increase...