Word: cog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lockheed's cog in the corporate-military wheel has been oiled by federally-guaranteed money, producing a scenario that reads like a twisted version of some new socialism. And despite its financial involvement, the public doesn't even buy the right to know what it's funding, let alone ensure that the money is used properly. Lockheed, its competitors in the weapons industry, and their Pentagon and congressional allies exemplify the close and pervasive government-corporate relationship of today: a corporate socialism that serves the interests of men like Haughton and their businesses, leaving the people slightly poorer...
...Harvard men in Bok's administration--Bok didn't go here either, graduating from Stanford) stays on top of so many issues around Harvard, from labor troubles to lawsuits, that his expertise makes him valuable to all the other administrators. He's the key cog, but much more of a manager than a player...
...John Frankenheimer (Seven Days in May) made the sequel, and his style, while clumsier than Friedkin's, is at least not so sparkly. Now Gene Hackman can be more than a cog in a lulling machine (2 complex contraption with a cash register attached), and this new non-commercial version of the trials of Popeye Doyle in search of Frog One--a major supplier of New York's heroin--is therefore a great deal more interesting. Doyle was originally the kind of cop that would yank people out of phone booths and throw them out on their...
...Crane was a product of his times. It took three hundred years before the political setting was ready for its cog and for the powerful interest that revolved around him. And it was with the Harvard Square bushings that he meshed best...
Without Daly's sixth cog, reigning-Ivy-Champ Penn nose-dived out of the national rankings in the last two weeks with three defeats in tournament and league play...