Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slice & Rice. Every other city has at least one "name" store, as well as a handful of less famous but no less ambitious ones. And though they boast of the barons and movie stars who patronize them, in fact the ordinary working-class German accounts for an increasingly large slice of the business. As one Bonn sociologist points out, the workingman uses smoked eel, sturgeon, venison, curried-rice salad, or even chocolate-covered grasshoppers to liven up his traditional light evening meal. "Today," says Alfred Peters of Michelsen's, which claims to be the largest importer of caviar...
...logotype that tops Page One of the Sacramento Union carries a proud boast: OLDEST IN THE WEST. And that is true enough. The California state capital's morning daily was founded in 1851 to bring the news to the crowds that had drifted into town with the '49 gold rush. Back in those good old days, stories ran under the bylines of Mark Twain and Bret Harte; the paper was so rich in talent that Jack London was merely a stringer. Since then, though, the Union has suffered a morose procession of 15 different owners...
...Given the Bresler-Duddy treatment, almost any fledgling songbird can be preened into a passable nightclub performer. Take the classic case of Bobbe (nee Barbara) Norris, 23. When she moved into a one-room apartment in Manhattan last year about the only experience she could boast was singing at high school proms in her native San Francisco. A friend got her an audition with Columbia Records, which signed her to a recording contract and sent her to Norman Rosemont, a high-powered producer-manager, who got her booked into the elegant Persian Room in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel...
...generations, multiple-vitamin preparations of one form or another have been a familiar fixture on many an American breakfast table. Whether or not they are prescribed by a pediatrician, they almost always boast the kind of label that assures a cautious parent he is doing right by his child. The fine print spells out "Minimum Daily Requirements" in esoteric quantities such as milligrams, U.S.P. or international units, and the average uncertain layman usually decides that if a little is good, more is surely better. The business in vitamin and mineral supplements to the U.S. food budget has grown to hundreds...
France, mired in a state of musical bankruptcy ever since World War II, could always boast one major asset: Pierre Boulez, 41, the leading voice of the modernist school of composers and a gifted conductor as well. But in 1959, Boulez suddenly deserted Paris to live in Baden-Baden and work with the progressive Southwest German Radio Orchestra. He left, he said, because "the organization of musical life in Paris is more stupid than anywhere else. France has completely lost her importance. Nothing advances...