Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never much of a paper. It's crusades and muck-racking expeditions were never very exciting, revealing, or pertinent. It was always sensational, with huge blown-up headlines ("Jayne Mansfield Dies In Crash") running across the top of the front page. And the stories that it ran were chosen, not because they provided balanced news coverage, but because they were the kind of stories that sold newspapers...
...Chosen, Potok (9) 10. Fathers, Gold...
Globe-Girdling. "I suppose," says Seymour of his rise and latest honor, that "my being chosen is a reflection of the change in the advertising business. With radio and television becoming so important, there is a greater chance for people experienced in these fields to rise to the top." Seymour's top is a pretty lofty place. J. Walter Thompson has worldwide billings of $558 million, and its list of clients reads like a blue book: Ford Motors, Liggett & Myers, RCA, Pan American, Eastman Kodak, Irving Trust Co., Scott Paper, Kraft Foods. So solid is the agency...
...last week) 2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2) 3. Washington, D.C., Vidal (4) 4. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (3) 5. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (7) 6. Valley of the Dolls, Susann 7. Capable of Honor, Drury (8) 8. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (9) 9. The Chosen, Potok (5) 10. Fathers, Gold...
Growing Disorder. Mao seems more worried than ever over the fragmentation of the Cultural Revolution that he unleashed nine months ago. The Red Guards, who were his first chosen instruments for rooting out his opponents, have become so unruly and fractious that chances are Mao could not rein them in all by himself; in any event, he appears too fearful of a rebuff to try. As for the party, Mao quite openly distrusts it, fearing that the loyalty of many party members still belongs to his archenemy, President Liu Shao-chi. Mao had little choice but to place...