Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community-relations officer bluntly told her father that he had to show some stern authority. "The girl was screaming silently, 'Help me; make me stop this,' " said the officer. "What she wanted was security-a dad behind her. She wanted to go to bed with a Teddy bear, not an ex-convict...
Difficult to Finance. More pruning and streamlining is to come, and more employees are likely to lose their jobs before the dust settles. In the end, Interpublic may bear only a slight resemblance to the company Marion Harper built and led. Says Carl Spielvogel, president of Interpublic's Market Planning Corp. and a member of the board: "We have faced the fact that it is increasingly difficult to finance a worldwide business such as ours. We have talked about going public, but there have been no plans made and no documents signed...
...characters and casting are all but archetypical. For a crusty old bear of a liberal newspaper publisher and his dashing, efficient career wife, who else but Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn starring in their ninth movie together? For the Negro fiancé, who else to choose but the smooth and handsome Sidney Poitier? What would Poitier's mother be if not sweet and sensitive, and Beah Richards (Raisin in the Sun, The Miracle Worker) is the best sweet-and-sensitive Negro mother in all of show business...
Birds of America, which he claimed (somewhat extravagantly) to have done entirely from life, the animals were nature morte. Since his subjects included the grizzly bear and the grey, or timber, wolf, this is easy to understand. Like all other naturalists, Audubon loved the things he killed. His views are reflected in this remark: "If a wolf passes your tent in the wilderness, he is likely to be less unpleasant than your next-door neighbor back home...
...week, twelve hours or more a day, with scant vacation for physical relaxation and no mental release at all from the relentless pressure of running an establishment now spending some $76 billion a year and employing 4,500,000 people. This year he has had to bear the added strain of his wife Marge's illness. "She has my ulcer," McNamara has said casually, hinting that his worries have rubbed...