Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Snorted a former New Dealer: "Carter is the most conservative President since Calvin Coolidge." Fair Dealer Clayton Fritchey, who worked in Harry Truman's Administration and was once Adlai Stevenson's press secretary, wrote that he had warned his liberal compatriots that Carter was the first true businessman to become President, and it would not have surprised him to have heard Carter criticize Gerald Ford as a man who never met a payroll...
There are moments in Annie Hall when whole world seems responsive to Allen`s deniand for total candor, if only through directorial manipulation. Early in the movie, Allen has his elementary school classmates reveal, in childish lisps, their future careers--from businessman to dope pusher. At another point, subtitles disclose what Annie and he are really thinking underneath their pretentious banter about aesthetics. Best of all is Allen's accosting of passersby on the street to ask them about his troubles. One contented couple straightfacedly admit that their content stems from the fact that they are silly, boring and vacuous...
Galbraith's sappy praise for Keynes stands out all the more when contrasted with the light in which the author places almost every other thinker, businessman, and institution that crosses his path: dim. Wht saves The Age of Uncertainty from being a history text is the personal touch. Tour-guide Galbraith knows the landscape well, but so well that he can't resist editorializing about each sight. Few are spared as Galbraith talks about the Pentagon ("Were [the Crusades] under the auspices of the Pentagon, it would still be heard that, in the Holy Land, there was light...
...substantial tax cut; the bookie is merely a private entrepreneur trying to survive in competition with state-run betting operations; the loan shark's 20%-a-week bite seems almost reasonable to a businessman who must raise cash fast but cannot qualify for a loan at a bank. Abetting this ethical blind spot are the romanticized accounts of the Mafia in novels and movies. Says Stephen Schiller, executive director of the Chicago crime commission: "The public doesn't realize how bad these people are. The Mob makes for good talk. We have made these bums folk heroes." Adds Ralph Salerno...
...lumber train with trim red wheels chugs across the Lewis Furchtenicht barn in Spooner. The facade of Patrick Hennessey's barn in Dodgeville displays primary-hued portraits of archetypal Wisconsinites: a blue-faced farmer, a crimson-haired girl, a gray-and-white-faced iron miner, a green-visaged businessman chomping a blue cigar...