Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always prided itself on its progressive image. In 1972, pressed for more space, townspeople asked Israeli permission to expand municipal boundaries to adjacent lands owned by Al-Bireh residents. The Israelis not only rejected the request but forbade development in two areas, including a site on which Arab businessmen wanted to build a resort...
...Eastern reservations clerk spent three hours on the phone with a couple, reckoning a 50-stop trip under the line's $302 to $323 fare that entitles a traveler to unlimited mileage?from Atlanta to Acapulco, from Seattle to San Juan?for 21 days. A new status symbol among businessmen is to know the unlisted reservations numbers that airlines have for VIP travelers. Laments Delta Air Lines President David Garrett: "We've got 18 different fares just between Atlanta and London, and they have all got to be explained in lengthy phone calls. We just can't keep...
...inception. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with grants from such corporations as A T & T, Exxon and General Motors, the program has established strong links between business and academe. Part of the mission has been to smash stereotypes. Says one Ph.D.: "It works both ways. Businessmen see us as people with no feet on the ground; we see them as ogres...
Fashions in public curiosity do change: once biographies were moral, meant to inspire emulation, as in the lives of saints or successful businessmen. Then came debunking journalism. Now, in a time of uncertain standards, the narrative style is neutral, deadpan: intending neither praise nor censure, but prepared to settle for provocative quotes and a plausible likeness. Readers too seem less judgmental, interested less in someone's character than in his or her "life-style." That mood could change, and if it did, so would the journalism. But an interest in people won't go away...
...torrid, but there are few surprises. The Country Cousin, this year's offering, features a cast familiar to readers of his 20 previous works of fiction: the calculating but sympathetic adventuress from a deprived background; an older sponsor scornful of the conventions of New York Society; taciturn, philandering businessmen with ruddy faces; and their thwarted wives, thirsting for uninhibited affairs. No more unpleasant crowd has been assembled since the days of the robber barons...