Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moorings. Pittsburgh Businessman Carl Volkwein, who for 20 years owned cruisers ranging from 24 ft. to 30 ft. in length, switched to a 40-ft. houseboat two years ago so that he could treat clients and their families to weekend jaunts up the Allegheny; he has already ordered a 43-ft. replacement with even more room. Mystery Writer Erie Stanley Gardner likes houseboats so much that he operates two of them on California's Sacramento River. "They're my floating offices, the only place in the world where I can really get away from it all in comfort...
...hero of this German movie, based on an autobiographical short story by Thomas Mann, is a boy with a 19th century-style identity crisis. Father is a rich and rigid businessman of the North; Mother is a warm-blooded romantic from the South who plays the mandolin and could hardly care less that Tonio fritters away his time writing bad poems and getting bad marks at school. Tonio appreciates this permissiveness but disapproves of it; his father's strictness seems more dignified: "After all, we are not gypsies living in a green wagon...
Shakers v. Smoothers. Clinton Rossiter categorizes Presidents as either earthshakers or earth-smoothers. Johnson's emphasis on consensus and conciliation, his efforts to bring businessman and laborer, black and white, city dweller and dirt farmer into his big tent, all seem to mark him as a smoother...
...brilliant young college graduate with a degree of innocence (Dustin Hoffman) returns to his parents' home in Los Angeles. There he is assaulted by fatuous friends of the family who entice him with offers. Most are commercial: "I have only one word for you," burbles a Babbittical businessman, "plastics." But one offer is sexual. Mrs. Robin son (Anne Bancroft), the neurotic wife of his father's business partner, lures...
...prostitute who was arrested provided them with a list of 30 names. Some of the men were then charged with such offenses as pimping, corruption of minors and breach of decency. The list included three counts, a marquis, the son of an ex-king, a hotel owner, a prominent businessman and a former diplomat to the United Nations. The ring's two madams were immediately convicted and sentenced, but the government hesitated in pressing the cases against...