Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...searching for a companion to accompany him on the "long journey," he encounters among others Fellowship (a fatuous, war buddy, fisherman), Strength (a bull dike), Knowledge (resembling Anna May Wong), and Good Deeds (Susan Channing in high style: a beautiful sometime cripple portrayed bitterly as a discarded lover). The action is largely set against the party, usually in silent swing upstage, and much of it is filmed by a little boy with a movie camera who rejects Everyman's plea for companionship by saying, "My life's a silver screen: lots of hand-held stuff, but no adventure flicks." When...
Twiggy engaged? True enough. Britain's bean sprout of a lass and her hairdresser-turned-manager, Justin de Villeneuve, 28, announced they will be married. But not right off, chums. "Twiggy and I will marry when she's 21," announced her steady companion, while the bride-to-be, looking older than her 18 years in a micro-toga, waggled her side curls in agreement. "I don't believe in marrying young," said the Twig. And there's another little thing, continued Justin: Twiggy says she wants a ring bigger than Liz Taylor's 33.19-carat...
...Whole Bit. But many couples insist that they do belong in the same world. Says San Francisco Negro Drama Student Toni Johns, 20: "I feel proud that I can date white boys, that my companion can do it, that we have no hang-ups, that we have enough sense and our heads are in the right place." And when it is a case of true love, the reaction can be fiery. Says Seattle Negro Musician Ernie Hatfield, 18, of his white fiancee: "We're not trying to prove anything. We love each other, that...
...clouds over the Atlantic aboard Pan American Flight 55 last month, Ford Vice Chairman Arjay Miller leaned over to his companion and said he intended to quit. He said he had been invited to head Stanford University's Graduate School for Business effective next July. Miller recalls: "Mr. Ford understood why I wanted to go." So did other automen in Detroit. Miller's leavetaking had been expected since February, when Henry Ford II raided General Motors and came away with Semon E. Knudsen to replace him as president at Ford. Miller at 51 was shunted sideways into...
This is an excellent companion piece to The French. Though it reaches beyond France to deal with the general failure of Europe's economic and industrial policies, much of that failure is clearly attributed to France, and thus at least partly to the peculiarities of the French character that Nourissier documents so well...