Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETER AND VERONICA, by Marilyn Sachs (Doubleday; $3.95). The pain and fun of a friendship-mostly conducted on roller skates-between Peter Wedemeyer (small, amiable, Jewish) and Veronica Ganz (big, bullying, Lutheran...
Everyone in the group had his pick of jobs, but many turned down offers from dozens of big firms in order to join a small company. The pay might be somewhat more modest there, but the responsibility is larger and the promotions potentially faster. Nobody in the group accepted the highest bidder, and few were interested in general training programs that are easy to get lost in. These students will not have to work their way painfully up through the ranks; they begin fairly close to the top. Many of today's business students have been in the armed...
...brothers to resign, though they still retain about 22% of the stock. Without them, Chrysler may find the going harder in a land where personal contacts and government good will mean much in business. The Barreiros case will probably scare off other proud Spanish businessmen from making big deals with the cool and wealthy Americans...
...over. When the first Italian westerns washed up on American shores, audiences were delighted with their frenzied hyperbole, their melodramatic distortions of American cinematic folklore. Everyone assumed they were great satire and that Director Sergio Leone was either a big put-on or a superb con man. Leone's newest effort, Once Upon a Time in the West, with a major cast and a lot of big studio money behind it, proves that he is simply a serious bore...
Bless Jane Jacobs. Lively, lucid, blunt, original, she triumphs by being mostly wrong. Her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), took thousands of great-American-city dwellers by storm. Written in the heyday of urban renewal, it briskly pointed out that most big, supposedly progressive rebuilding projects were casting a "great blight of dullness" on the already tormented city dweller. In her ten years as an editor of Architectural Forum, she had seen plenty of such projects. The zesty future, she argued, could be found instead by returning to the diversity of the past...