Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most surprising thing about all of this is the widely held belief that it is new. In politics memories are notoriously short. Thus we find the just-published biography of Julian Bond making the erroneous assertion that Bond was "the first black man in the history of the country to be proposed for the job of Vice-President"--a claim that is constantly being iterated elsewhere. The idea of a black President or Vice-President is, actually, far from novel. And all the current discussion needs to be placed in its historical context. This context has two main aspects...
Strolling disconsolately along London's Bond Street, Author Anthony Burgess was accosted by a friend who wanted to know why all the gloom. He was on his way, said Burgess, to dine with Producer-Director Stanley Kubrick and to see A Clockwork Orange. But why the long face, asked his friend, since the film -made from Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name-is the hit of the year? "Precisely," said Burgess. "I sold the screen rights long ago for a few hundred dollars...
NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH by EDWARD BOND...
Attuned to this theme, Bond's play is vaguely set in Japan in what might be the mid-19th century. The central figure is the great Japanese poet, Basho (Robert Symonds). He is on a quest for some radiant shaft of wisdom. Instead he encounters a power-mad dictator, Shogo (Cleavon Little), who establishes a great city, but it is overthrown by invading colonialists garbed in the Union Jack and blasting away with howitzers and Christian hymns. Edward Bond, a 36-year-old Londoner, took exactly 2½ days to write the play and uses four words to explain...
...brokerage business, Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Smith must often seem as overwhelming as the herd of stampeding bulls in its now famous television commercial. It dominates the securities field with its widespread distribution system, geared to serve the needs of small investors. It has moved so vigorously into Government-bond trading, commodities, real estate, mutual funds and even economic consulting that such non-stock-market ventures account for more than half of its revenues. Now Merrill Lynch has thundered into the lead on the financial world's most exclusive turf: investment banking...