Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress consists of 100 Senators and 435 Representatives from every state and every social background, ranging from millionaire to former coal miner. There is no reason to assume that this body includes a greater number of crooks than any other comparable sample of 535 Americans. But is that good enough? The U.S. voter takes a fairly cynical view of politicians, more or less expecting them to be up to their campaign buttons in patronage and various forms of skulduggery. But at the same time, he also expects (or wants) them to be above the more blatant forms of corruption. That...
...editor says, "This is the West. When the fact becomes legend, print the legend," Ford's films show the legend. His world is diffused by time, by memory and nostalgia, by folklore and myth. In How Green Was My Valley, Ford's adaptation of Llewellyn's novel of Welsh coal miners, the story resembles a dream, seen in retrospect by a man who has had his entire life to romanticize the past: his childhood and his family. Ford is not interested in reality but in subjective viewpoint, not fact but romance and legend...
...price extracted by the Bonn government and a group of West German banks for providing the financing that is urgently needed for $250 million worth of export orders that Krupp has on its books. The company's troubles began last year when Krupp, already suffering from the depressed coal market and declining prices for steel, which accounts for 30% of its total production, began grasping for export orders so as to keep its 100,000 loyal Kruppianers at work...
...fact that his only son, Arndt, 29, has shown more inclination to fly with the European jet set than take over the company. Meanwhile, critics charge, Krupp's expansive general manager, Berthold Beitz, has overextended the company when he should have been cutting down its unprofitable operations in coal and steel. With public management instead of a private monarchy, German bankers are hoping that Krupp will come out of reorganization stronger than ever...
...Rimers of Eldritch, by Lanford Wilson, is a little bit like seeing and hearing vignettes from Winesburg, Ohio set to the cadences and dramatic form of Under Milk Wood. Eldritch is a once coal-rich Midwestern ghost town, whose remaining citizens have become tiny little slag heaps of humanity. The frustrated urge to flee has become the venomous urge to flail one another. They use one of the weapons of the weak-their tongues-and the air they breathe is incessant and malicious gossip. It takes a crime for anyone to become visible in Eldritch, and the play revolves around...