Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime laboratories and police academies. The President also surprised Congress with a proposal to combine in a single Department of Business and Labor the interrelated and often overlapping functions of the less than potent Commerce and Labor Departments. Though the plan had enthusiastic backing from both Commerce Secretary John Connor (who coincidentally announced last week that he wants to resign anyway, some time in the next couple of months) and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz (who has also told the President that he would like a job change), its reception on Capitol Hill was lukewarm...
...Edwin O'Connor's first great novel, The Last Hurrah, was a portrait of a type of politics that died in Boston about 15 years ago. Ever since The Last Hurrah appeared in 1956, people have been expecting O'Connor to produce a novel on the style of the politics that's now practiced in Massachusetts. All in the Family, his latest book, is that novel...
What is the technology gap? How real is it? Commerce Secretary John Connor, an adept at soothing utterances, suggests that it could more accurately be called an "industrial disparity." Whatever the name, Europe shows real enough symptoms of the condition. Everywhere about him, the European sees American products and processes. When a Frankfurt businessman rises in the morning, he may well reach for a Gillette razor blade, Colgate toothpaste, and hair lotion that comes in a bottle made by an Owens-Illinois subsidiary. After he downs his Maxwell instant coffee with Libby condensed milk, his wife, trim in her Lycra...
...late Flannery O'Connor, whose death in 1964 was a severe loss to American fiction, is represented by a very long story-so long that it has been separately published as a novel. Wise Blood deals with a familiar theme: man obsessed to the point of fanaticism. The scene is the dirt-road South outside the progressive and prosperous mainstream of U.S. life. In a modern U.S. city, there is no place outside of the psychiatric ward for the hero of Wise Blood, a gaunt drifter who blinds himself the better to see God and extinguish the devil...