Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likens the Manhattan ghetto to "an underdeveloped country." It lacks indigenously owned business, gets little risk capital, and keeps losing its talent to bigger industries elsewhere-just as in underdeveloped countries. "In underdeveloped areas," he adds, "colonial banks were the only source of credit, and rarely did an indigenous businessman receive a loan until independence permitted the establishment of local banks...
...SINGULAR MAN, by Novelist J. P. Don-leavy (The Ginger Man), starring E. G. Marshall as a detached, uncommunicative businessman, opens at the Country Playhouse, Westport, Conn., Sept...
...conference in Washington that SANE in 1968 "will energetically support" an antiwar candidate, even if he has to run himself. Meanwhile out in California, the jokesters proposed On the Good Ship Lollipop as a campaign song for Shirley Temple, now Mrs. Charles Black, 39, wife of a San Francisco businessman and a dabbler in Republican politics, who announced that she will probably file for the congressional seat held by the late Republican J. Arthur Younger...
...this marital split the protagonist is a suburbanite businessman played by Dick Van Dyke. The antagonist is his wife (Debbie Reynolds), who, although surrounded by a faithful husband, two handsome, happy children and a $49,000 house, nonetheless feels that her marriage is a snore and a delusion. As the two duel downstairs, their boys, who have heard it all before, listen upstairs, giving each parent points on a chart. The marriage game continues in the presence of the couple's lawyers. Debbie fights dirty, and in no time at all, Dick is taken to the cleaners. She gets...
...Demands of Love. Author Mallet-Joris, 36, counts among her considerable gifts the ability to present believable male characters, an art that is beyond many women writers. She is also a master of the trenchant phrase: a businessman has an "Easter Island head stuck on a penguin body"; a cantankerous father "needs to see his son unhappy in order to love him." She is one of those rare writers who can create worlds that readers instantly accept. Love, and its demands, are what her novel is about. Man's only choice, she says, is to accept the demands...