Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surely somebody listens to all those scholarly papers read at the American Historical Association convention; however, the meeting is also the his tory business's most important floating job market, and thousands of resumes change hands there each day.
Can the nation go on meeting like this? As entrenched as it has become in the mores, folkways and lower economics of contemporary living, the convention business faces a few hangovers of its own. One is the National Organization for Women's convention boycott of the 15 states that have...
Many hoteliers are less worried about the ERA than the IRS. The new foreign convention tax rule is troublesome enough, but some convention industry officials fear that the Carter Administration may try to extend those restrictions, on grounds that the tax deductibility of conventions is a boondoggle for the relatively...
A few professional convention watchers have suggested that, with the spread of swifter and cheaper electronic communication, the convention itself may some day become obsolete. After all, why spend four days in St. Louis when you can summon up all the data you need on your desktop video display terminal...
That much they certainly get. As any delegate knows, no amount of packaging, commercialization, overscheduling or professional planning can squeeze the raw, sweaty, boozy, friendly humanity out of a convention. Such a celebration is well suited to an age when life has too often been stripped of drama, romance and...