Word: bee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suppose the Beatles had discovered soothing syrup instead of psychedelia; where would their music stand today? A possible answer comes from the Bee Gees, acclaimed by many people to be the first deserving heirs to the Beatles' shaggy mantle. Last week the five tousled youngsters swept in and out of Anaheim, Calif., for their first American appearances, taped a couple of guest shots on the Smothers Brothers and Laugh-In TV shows, and relaxed in a Beverly Hills hotel to count their money and think clean...
...Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, Lady Astor, and the young dandy Lord Lichfield; from Madrid, Count and Countess de Romanones-Quintanilla, and from Rome, Donna Allegra Caracciolo. Paris sent Princess Peggy d'Arenberg and Dubonnet-Maker André Dubonnet; from Manhattan flew Marylou Whitney (with a sequined bee on her bonnet), along with Newport's Jimmy and Candy Van Alen, Gardiner's Island's Robert Gardiner, Hollywood's Carol Channing and politics' Ted Sorensen and Richard Nixon...
...first in her walk. Tall, her black hair close-cropped, she carries her lithe body with uncanny grace--an assurance that comes from years of hard labor. Naomi works in the kibbutz bee-hives. Clothed in stifling protective garments on searing Israeli afternoons, she sloshes rich, amber honey into pails. She is the only girl on the kibbutz who does it. It is work that many men cannot stand...
...views of life -Salinger maintaining that youth, innocence and grace are corrupted by the cruel conventions of a corrupt society, and Golding demonstrating in fable after fable that man's heart in herits the evil of his ancestry. Wrote Golding in an essay: "Man produces evil as a bee produces honey...
...modern corporation has become just too large for any individual to swing much power. The entrepreneur, like the father of a bee, "accomplishes his act of conception at the price of his own extinction." Shareholders cannot even pretend to power because ownership of stock has become so diffuse. Big capitalists and bankers have lost influence because the typical corporation generates its own funds and does not need to borrow so much. The corporation has also become so bafflingly complex that even the chief executive is often little more than a symbol, a cheerleader and a rubber stamp for decisions that...