Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed in front of Emerson , the bells of Memorial Church chimed noon, and Biff admired the Coop sportsjacket that was now his "uniform." "How well I fit in," he thought. "They all think they're so smart around here, but they'd never suspect...." Yet even before he finished this reflection, he felt something slam into him and knock him off balance. Picking himself up from the path, he saw a little foreign-looking man scramble up from the ground and rush over...
...what the Administration did: One day last December, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg had as his private lunch guest U.S. Steel Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, who is the steel companies' chief bargainer and was Goldberg's adversary in the 1959-60 steel negotiations. Goldberg impressed upon "Coop" that John Kennedy wanted early bargaining and a quick settlement so as to avoid a surge and subsequent slump in steel buying. Soon after, at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Convention in Miami's Americana Hotel. Goldberg told the same to Dave McDonald. Though the Administration firmly denies that it dictated...
Harry Bogen (Elliott Gould) is a fox in a chicken coop. He breaks his fellow shipping clerks' strike, raids his former employer's staff to start his own dress firm, ditches his loyal girl friend for a platinum-pated actress, rooks his partners out of their life savings, and check-bounces the firm into bankruptcy to keep his sleek chick's wrists warm (with bracelets). But most of the time Harry is too homey to be unwholesome. He rushes home to Mama (Lillian Roth), counts on her for cooking, and sweeps her into an Oedipalsy song...
...Harvard Coop" has possibilities, but they are not explored. The words don't make much sense, but rock 'n roll that is often a virtue. Throughout the song we hear of the wonders of sets of "monopoly, opolyopoly" and "refund checks a-heck heck." An echo chamber, a good drummer, a bridge tune, and slightly less repetition would have helped immensely. Still, it is possible that the does capture the atmosphere of favorite cooperative store, and that is important. For if rock 'n roll has value, it is in its ability to the flavor of contemporary life...
...marry a "po' buckra" boy (Laurence Harvey) from the backblocks of Texas who can't possibly provide as nice a house as the one she has been living in. Indignant, the madam collects her bullyboys and gives chase. The pigeon refuses to fly back to the coop. Bang! Dead pigeon...