Word: coaxings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a bright musicomedy spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mount Rushmore's stone faces...
...Business Without Really Trying (book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser) is a light, bright spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative, tousle-haired, triple-jointed comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mt. Rushmore...
Like Noah. Most of the push behind industrial mobilization has been supplied by Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive...
Developing country, the power structure is vertical, not horizontal. There is a trained, educated elite who pull, push and coax the mass of the people in the direction dictated by the future. There is only one task--that of development on every front. There are a few who can teach, and many who must learn; there are those few who must make decisions and can lead, and those many who accept and follow. The political dialogue is not among equal blocs with varied interests, but between the leadership forces of develpoment, education, and eventually industrialization- and the people who will...
...which had had a front-page seat at the fight, could only wonder why Jack Kennedy had not chopped Chester Bowles down with one purposeful command, rather than set up an unseemly spectacle as he tried to coax the amiable big-thinker into quitting...