Word: ballyhooer
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...capitalism for all. The New Nixon believes in capitalism for the poor but socialism for the rich. When the President took office, the national rate of unemployment was 3.6 per cent. During his administration, unemployment soared to over 6 per cent of the work force. Today, after all the ballyhoo of his New Economic Policy, the unemployment rate is 5.5 per cent. Although committed noisily to the work ethic, Nixon has done little to counteract the worst spell of unemployment in recent years. The overwhelming proportion of his tax benefits go to big business. The rich profit greatly from investment...
...True, hundreds of athletes did their human best, breaking dozens of world and Olympic records. Nonetheless, the impact of these extraordinary feats of strength, endurance and grace was marred by the chauvinistic stockpiling of team points, power politics, inept and prejudiced officiating, flagrant commercialism and oleaginous doses of carnival ballyhoo...
...which came to be interpreted as one of the charter documents of Pop art. But the museum, like the kraken, envelops even those who defy it. Oldenburg, at 43, is one of the most avidly collected artists in America. The reasons have little to do with the Pop ballyhoo of the early '60s; firmly independent of movements, he has been trying for the past six years to get clear of the narrow context of museum art and the still narrower one of private buying. So his projects for monuments are an effort to take over the environment-"to make...
...Janis Gallery, "Sharp-Focus Realism." Well before the opening, it was clear that the show's promoters expected the style to have the same razzy, traumatic effect on New York taste that Pop art had in 1962-and that they were ready to use the same kind of ballyhoo to ensure it. In a way, this was fitting. The creation...
...standard of "public interest, convenience, or necessity." There would be no censorship, and no provision for guaranteed educational airtime or wavelengths. The Coolidge era was hitting its final swing, with advertising its new religion; Bruce Barton wrote of Jesus as the "founder of modern business." Gradually, "public service" ballyhoo was revealed as lip-service to informed opinion. Even sentimental traditions faltered; the "Silent Night" which allowed listeners to hear famous distant stations without local interference; uninterrupted nighttime broadcasting; flexible coverage of news events...