Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strapping Steel. What worries Worthington is that blue-collar workers may get undue credit for productivity rises for which they are only partly responsible, and on the strength of this inflated claim get extravagant wage-and-benefit increases that would eat into profits and leave the steel companies strapped for funds for capital expansion. "In 1960,'' said Worthington, "European countries invested some 10% of their gross national product in capital equipment, while we devoted only 5% to this purpose. Why? The answer is we have been discouraging the flow of investment capital. As a percentage of gross national...
Dagwood, Blondie, Pat and Mike, Ikie and Abie--you know--the . And they were replacing them with a new image based on their own view of their own generation. The Post World War II American--more and more white collar; more and more a suburban thinker if not a suburban dweller, more and more concerned with only his own. A citizen in a land which suddenly had world leaders , prosperity, nuclear power, sound, small foreign playboy magazine, Fidel Castro Dwight David Eisenhower thrust...
...were unconsciously quite funny--witness Mike Gold's attacks on Thornton Wilder. Wilder's religion was "a pastel, pastiche, dilettante religion, without the true neurotic blood and fire, a daydream of homosexual figures in graceful gowns moving archaically among the lilies. Or his description of Archibald MacLeish: a "white collar fascist out of Harvard and Wall Street." But they were mostly as dreary as the proletarian novelists they praised so excessively. Marxism's direct cultural impact on America was slight, and is mercifully forgotten...
...Enter the Minister and his wife, right. He is carrying a large suitcase, an umbrella, and a canteen. She carries another, smaller suitcase covered with travel stickers, and has a huge purse slung from her shoulder. He wears a black, vested suit with Episcopalian collar; She is plainly and decently dressed, past middle age and, like her husband, obviously of tough pioneer stock. They both seem overheated and fatigued...
...missionary is William Holden, a priest who arrives in China just before the Communists take over. The beautiful native girl is France Nuyen, who is rescued by the padre from a flood. 'I love you!" she sighs, and flings her arms around him. Hot under his clerical collar, the priest squeaks: "Stop tantalizing me!" She sneaks into his room at night. "Father," she coos, "don't you need anything?" Pulling the covers over his chest, he wheezes in terror: "Get out!" Pretty soon she has him ogling her while a Mass is being read...