Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taste, and it is fortunate that he was always right in his criticism, for he wrote with an authoritarian voice that could have sounded smart-aleck were he ever a shade off target. At times he seems to reach out from the page, shake the reader by the collar, and command "Like It!" with dictums like "these lines are so good that even admiration feels like insolence, and one is ashamed of anything one can find to say about them...
...Democrats, who received less than fervent cooperation from Big Labor in the 1966 elections, owed last week's big-city victories in some degree to the union vote. Whatever the reasons-unprecedented wage levels, blue-collar support for the war, or resentment of Republican cutbacks in spending for the cities-labor voted with a cohesion unsurpassed since the Kennedy-Nixon, election of 1960. Key fronts...
Owing to the rise of service industries alongside production firms, the number of white-collar employees has long since topped the number of blue-collar workers. Well over 60% of all non-farm families own the homes they live in; in 1917, the figure was 40%. Almost 80% of U.S. families now own an automobile, and one in five families has at least two; in 1917 only 5% had a car. Only 1% of U.S. farms was electrified in 1917; today more than 99% of farms and all other homes have Edison's bulb, not to mention Sarnoff...
...party last week, all the old gang puffed up four flights to the East Side editorial walkup. Dressing as distinctively as they write, Columnist Jimmy Breslin appeared with open collar and untied tie, Writer Tom Wolfe in a white suit over a blue paisley shirt, Pop Critic Dick Goldstein with a Beatles haircut, boots and an "Indo-Russian embroidered jacket." They were joined by two new staffers, Lady-Writ-er-About-Town Gloria Steinem and Mafia Watcher Peter Maas. Harold Clurman will review plays for the revived magazine, Judith Crist, movies. George Hirsch, who came from TIME-LIFE International...
...immigrant family in The Bronx, N.Y., Dr. Giorgi (pronounced Georgy) decided in grammar school that she wanted to become a doctor. Penniless when she finished pre-med courses at New York City's Hunter College in the depths of the Depression, she toiled twelve years as a white-collar worker in a trucking company, saving $12,000 while helping the firm increase sixfold in size. Then, after four years at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, she spent ten years as intern, resident and ultimately chief of clinics at the Cornell Division of New York City...