Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advertising writer, within the last ten years he has won prominence as one of the most provocative of American poets. But the large crowd that came to hear his Morris Gray Poetry Reading on October 25 may have been surprised to find itself faced with a solid, comfortable Southern businessman. This is what Dickey appears to be, except when his eyes glitter as he relishes the turns of his own conversation...
...seems unconvincing, and the first scene of the second act is contentless. But the lines, and the characters who speak them, achieve credibility and real beauty at the same time. "Baby, if you had a dog, I'd love the dog," says Moe Axelrod, the family satisfied businessman with little concern for family or boarder, to Hennie, whom he loves. Uncle Morty, a self-heritage, describes his success by saying, "Every Jew and Wop in the shop eats my bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.' I started from a poor boy who worked on an ice wagon...
Buckley Sr. subjected his children to a rigorous, if haphazard education. Unimpressed by the schools as he moved from Venezuela to France to England and back to the U.S. (Sharon, Conn., where Mrs. Buckley Sr. still lives), he stressed education at home. Not the kind of businessman who sneered at the liberal arts, he hired tutors in dance, architecture, painting, herb gardening, and one who was expert at building boats inside bottles. "We thought we had tried about everything," recalls Bill, "and in would come yet another professor." All the children were trilingual, or at least bilingual. Bill learned...
...businessman-scholar who agreed to go with Wells Fargo only after warning that "I'm not interested in any job that's not active," Arbuckle has more management experience than many men who have spent their whole careers in the executive suite. Himself a Stanford business-school graduate (class of 1936), Arbuckle started off with Standard Oil of California first as a personnel officer, later as an organization analyst-with time out for wartime Navy duty as a PT boat squadron commander (for which he won a silver star) and on General Lucius D. Clay's staff...
Calman Jacoby begins as a simple, God-fearing small businessman. As a result of various political and social upheavals, he winds up an industrial entrepreneur. The children, as usual, go modern in their own ways. One of Calman's daughters commits the heresy of an interfaith marriage. A son-in-law, fascinated and undermined by science, moves toward that 20th century religion-substitute, psychiatry. The son-in-law's sister moves to the city and turns into a forerunner of the Career Girl...