Word: brights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Briton. A question was put forth: How can a country with a skilled industrial work force and a scientific establishment that regularly produces Nobel prize winners, a country that invented the Industrial Revolution, be such an economic weakling in the modern world? The American replied by noting that bright young men do not go into business in Great Britain. Commerce is considered vulgar, his British colleague concurred. The ablest young people go into university careers, the civil service or cultivated idleness, but they do not go into business. And England has paid the price...
Anthony Keating's conversion from the smug anti-commerce snobbery of his idle friends (rich and not-so-rich alike) to the property fever of Wincobank occurs while he is reviewing video clips of Austin Jones, the "bright young man" he has sent to interview Wincobank. Suddenly, lightening strikes...
Consequently, Milter insists that he will sign no contract unless it contains a clause granting each U.M.W. local the Bright, by majority vote, to strike over local issues. To the mine owners that sounds like an appeal to recognize, and even give their blessing to, a state of anarchy. Under Miller's leadership, they point out, man-days lost because of the unauthorized strikes have more than quadrupled; the total so far this year is 2.3 million. Most dam aging were a series of brushfire walkouts that spread from West Virginia to Kentucky and Ohio this past summer, idling...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar has narrative lapses, jerky editing and confusing fantasy sequences that look like Ken Russell outtakes. Brooks' idea of style is to shoot Theresa in bright sunlight when she is being a good schoolteacher and in grim shadows when she is bedding down with her rough pickups. Though the movie was shot in color, the director's vision acknowledges only blacks and whites...
Fifteen minutes later Harvard walked off the field with their third consecutive tie in the Ivies. On the bright side, the draw represents progress for a Harvard team that has never beaten Princeton...