Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates who have a potential nuisance value but no real possibility of whining. The most serious of them is Jean Royer, 53, the independent mayor of Tours, who has become the darling of France's petite bourgeoisie by campaigning against pornography and sponsoring laws to protect the small businessman from the competition of big stores. Because he might be able to attract the support of France's 570,000 small shopkeepers, he could cut deeply into the potential first-ballot strength of both Chaban and Giscard. Nonetheless, there was little doubt that the real race involved the leftist...
...infancy, so she took to mothering Harvard men. (Even in advanced age she detested Radcliffe women, regarding them as competition. They returned her sentiments.) At any rate, she often graced Harvard lectures with her presence. Through Charles Eliot Norton, she discovered Dante, and she learned about art. Her businessman husband was intrigued. They began to collect...
...matter, asked Adolph Rupp, former University of Kentucky basketball coach, why does anyone bother to keep score? Yes, but everyone knows the competitive excesses that inequality also encourages: the ruthless athlete who thinks that sportsmanship is for losers, the politician with the instinct for the jugular, the predatory businessman who exults in crushing rivals...
Jack Lemmon deserved to be named best actor years ago for Billy Wilder's The Apartment --he won the award for Save the Tiger this year, where he plays a businessman who's shrewdly shady activities are justified, in the film's scheme of things, by the pressures around...
...after two years of drifting round Europe's universities as an American student prince, Lincoln Steffens, 26, disembarked at the port of New York. He was greeted by an envelope from his father, a self-made Sacramento businessman and community pillar. It contained a terminal $100, a few Polonian sentences about theory at the expense of practice, and the advice: "Stay in New York and hustle...