Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People often thought Charlie Merrill spent his wealth as fast as he made it. He cut a wide swath through international café society, loved good food and champagne. He owned three luxurious homes (in Palm Beach, Fla., Southampton, L.I., and Barbados), and embarked on an equal number of marriages...
...European Protestantism. Rudolf Karl Bultmann, 72, napping in his book-crammed study or limping through his grounds with his wife and daughter, does not look like an intellectual tornado. But in Germany, where ideas are apt to detonate like buzz bombs, sending shock waves through university faculties, student cafés and editorial rooms, the ideas of Rudolf Bultmann have set off a major furor...
Last week the Spanish Ministry of Labor gave the café habitues something real to chew on. It approved a new 42-hour week for insurance employees−but provided that they work from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. without a luncheon break. Once the shock passed, the workers welcomed the change: abolishing the two-hour lunch would mean for thousands of them only two subway or bus trips a day instead of four. And hard-up Spanish workers, most of whom must hold two jobs in order to make ends meet, now had their "afternoons" free for side jobs...
...affair beginning at 2 p.m., and dinner stretches from 11 p.m. into the small hours of the morning. Among upper-class Spaniards and those who aspire to that state, too much interest in work is considered bad form; if business must be done, let it be concluded in a caf...
A.B.C., flushed with victory from a recent campaign against hornblowing, unsettled a lot of café conversations by proclaiming: "This business of not working, of having lunch at teatime and dinner when one should be in bed, constitutes a sorry picture and is neither healthy nor ethical." Day after day. A.B.C. took up logical, historical, medical, ethical and demographic arguments for a change...