Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drafted or are members of ROTC with a two-year service commitment, they are offered jobs. Sought-after students are in the habit of saying not "I was interviewed" but "I interviewed"-and indeed they did. They can command salaries of $10,000 in the big corporations, $15,000 with Wall Street law firms...
...more plausible to provide a student with broad concepts into which he can fit the necessary de tails later. Robert Hutchins, for one, has proposed that the college years be devoted exclusively to a liberal education; career skills can be acquired on the job. In effect, many big corporations already maintain impressive educational systems to provide such training...
Ultimately, business and the professions may have to make even greater adjustments to accommodate the new breed of graduates. Many big corporations now use their annual reports to stress their good works as well as their profits. Some top-ranking Manhattan law firms cooperate in programs that allow younger associates to work one night a week in the ghettos and do follow-up work during the day; Baltimore's Piper & Marbury plans to open an office in the ghetto next fall. Idiosyncrasy is no longer suspect. In some areas the man in the turtleneck is beginning to replace...
...ambush. The book's first two sentences read: "It was a late afternoon of savage bottomlands heat in the April of 1935. Johnny Jesus stood between his two companions, leaning back against a high baggage wagon on the warped bricks of the depot landing and facing the big, moonfaced gunman." Serious business; savage bottomlands heat and a big moonfaced gunman. Grubb adds a sentence of smoky poetry to make sure everyone takes his meaning: "Uncle Doc [the gunman] was one of those humped, huge men who, beneath a cloak of paunch, are cat-swift as dainty dancers and hard...
...other let-out cons get aboard the evening train out of Glory. Johnny is a dreamy lad of 17 who has just served three years for a rape that he did not commit. Lee Cottrill, standing there beside him, is a daft bank robber. Then there is big...