Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich chancellorship a decade later, he posed as the "lonely wanderer out of nothingness" who had come to power. Finally there was the "imitation Wagnerian end" in a bunker in burning Berlin...
Griffith believes that the press, like other U.S. institutions, did not cope well enough with the upheavals of the '60s. It fell too readily for the glib and the dramatic, and was slow to understand the "voice of Archie Bunker's America." Griffith also worries about the "artificial momentum" of major stories: "Once a theme to the news emerges-that McGovern vacillates, that Lyndon Johnson has a credibility problem, that Nixon has much to hide-then any small fact, otherwise inconsequential, can be tied to the theme and made to seem news...
...opening up opportunities. But the more rigidly quotas are imposed in a minority's behalf, the more risk there is of transferring to other groups that invaluable but intangible advantage in the equality argument-the sense of being unfairly treated. Richard Nixon, George Wallace and Archie Bunker are scholars of the subject...
...items were soybeans and wheat; this year the fastest action is in sugar and metals. On the Chicago Board of Trade, Dealer Larry Blum says, "silver was going up in a day as much as it ordinarily does in a year." The biggest silver speculator is Dallas Centimillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, who has used his petro-wealth to buy millions of dollars worth of future contracts for silver. Unlike most commodities gamblers, Hunt has accepted delivery on some of the metal, which he apparently intends to hoard until the price goes higher...
This computerized efficiency extends to the cattle themselves. When a hundred cattle are feeding at a bunker, one can detect no more than an inch or so of variation in the height of their identical-looking rumps. Uniformity is only partly the result of breeding. More important than genetics are the skillful methods used to turn every calf into a 1,100-lb., slightly blocky steer that will yield USDA Choice Grade Beef. The object is to remove as many variables from the beef-raising process as possible and replace them with more stable techniques copied from the assembly line...