Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...logical choice to loosen its iron grip over fares, routes and almost all other aspects of the airlines' economic life. As a Cornell University economics professor who was also chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission from 1974 to 1977, Kahn has spent much of his career criticizing federal and state government for shielding inefficient industries to the detriment of consumers, who must pay more. Fully aware of the criticisms his deregulation drive would bring, he says: "No businessman protected from competition ever believed that competition is anything but destructive...
Even nonrock enthusiasts may find The Band worth getting to know. During the course of a 16-year career, this group produced some uncommonly rich music. Their best work demonstrates a literary appreciation of American myth and a ravenous affection for American pop songs; jazz, folk, hillbilly, soul and country music are all part of The Band's mix. In The Last Waltz, the group performs most of its best-known numbers. At times its members share Winterland's stage with such past associates and current cronies as Bob Dylan, Ronnie Hawkins, Van Morrison and Emmylou Harris...
DIED. Will Geer, 76, protest-minded character actor who capped a long career with his portrayal of the blustery grandfather in television's homespun series, The Waltons; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Wanderlust led the young Geer to riverboat theater, the Shakespearean stage and the bright lights of Broadway (Of Mice and Men, Tobacco Road). Blacklisted in the McCarthy era, he pursued an interest in botany with a book on the 1,000 plants in Shakespeare's plays and a repertory theater in Topanga Canyon, Calif, called the Theatricum Botanicum, where he continued to hold workshops...
Throughout a long, immensely profitable career, Gardner had only one hardback publisher, Morrow, which also produced this maddening biography. Dorothy Hughes is modest enough to say in her introduction that she may have been picked for the task because she wrote long, favorable reviews of his books. It seems more likely that impenetrable discretion won her the job. Gardner was clearly a very eccentric man, an upstart as a boy in California, a brazen and unorthodox young lawyer in Ventura County, Calif. Many of Mason's more bizarre tactics resembled his creator's. In the most famous, Gardner...
...recently, library circulation of books has doubled, and the number of pre-meds and pre-laws among us is rising to frightening proportions. Supposedly, these trends among students signal a change from romantic, carefree idealists to competitive, narrow-minded pre-professionals. But for many, or even most of us, career-planning, just like taking a leave of absence, may be no more than a response to indecision, uncertainty, or lack of fulfillment. The more we worry about the meaning of our future, the more ambitious we seem...