Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nomination, Humphrey may enter the campaign as the distinct underdog. Nixon's high rating in the polls is part of the reason, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia is likely to enhance his appeal. Because Nixon still has the reputation of being a tough antiCommunist, he stands to benefit from Moscow's raw assertion of power...
Cozzens, to give him the benefit of any doubt, may have wanted Worthington's distended and directionless nar rative style to serve as a form of complex characterization and ironic statement: it is Worthington's recurring point that life is drift as much as design. In a wry put-on, Cozzens may have intended'to mock that notion. But if that is the case, the novel still fails, because Cozzens has chosen to write against the grain of his own special talent-that of a meticulous and compulsive craftsman-which demands the imposition of a precise design...
...France after its spring disorders and the huge wage increases that ended the general strike. Little more than two months later, that outlook has changed remarkably. Though still far from being out of danger, France has a fighting chance not only to recover from the strike but even to benefit from...
...summer. There is acid rock by such groups as the Quicksilver Messenger Service and Mother Earth. There are shots of long-haired nymphets looking stoned, solemn interviews with cops, doctors, and headshrinkers about the dangers of drugs, and interminable expositions of hippie philosophy by unbathed gurus. Apparently for the benefit of grind-house voyeurs, there is also some totally nude choreography-filtered through eye-blasting psychedelic lighting-danced by members of the Ann Halprin troupe...
...turgid. For one thing, if the Administration was anxious to portray U.S. Steel as a model of industrial statesmanship, the company did not care for the role. U.S. Steel made it clear that its price increases fell far short of covering the cost of the 6% labor wage-and-benefit package negotiated last month, warned that other price changes would be coming from time to time. Aiming a lance at the White House, the company said it was "almost, but not quite universally recognized" that steel prices do not cause inflation, insisted that the cost-of-living culprit lay elsewhere...