Word: cooperation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone on the street calls Cooper the "key man" because he carries a great many around on a large ring and because he seems to be at the very center of all the action. His is, in any case, a poor fiefdom, a small hunk of downtown territory in an unnamed city that is clearly Los Angeles. Cooper holds court in bars, keeps a small, dusty office in which even the sunlight is encrusted. He is a fixer and a mover: he puts up bail bond, regulates the steady flow of petty crime in the neighborhood. Cooper also has eyes...
...Having a very weak gift for plot construction, he took to adapting novels ranging from Carson McCullers' to James Purdy's. One such "adaption," Everything in the Garden (TIME, Dec. 8, 1967), was rather more effective in its original form as written by Britain's Giles Cooper than it was as rewritten by Albee, or so some critics said. After creating the wily priest and the slandering lawyer in Tiny Alice, the play that immediately followed Virginia Woolf, Albee no longer seemed able to invent any characters that possessed dramatic vigor. They all appeared to be suffering...
...drain off more of the nation's resources and build up trade debts that future generations will have to pay. In 1974 the rippling effects of rising oil prices contributed three or four percentage points to the U.S. inflation rate of 12%. The oil rise, which Yale Economist Richard Cooper called "King Faisal's tax," reduced Americans' purchasing power and consumption of goods as much as a 10% increase in personal income taxes would have done...
...years older than he were earning $2.78 a week in the sweatshops of Brooklyn, as Manchester might already have learned. (Even at ten he was a compulsive newspaper reader.) But then prime rib roast cost only 21? per lb., and young Manchester could buy a ticket to see Jackie Cooper in the "talkie" When a Feller Needs a Friend for 10?. The real trouble was that 28% of all Americans had no income...
...Anderson '75, chairman of the Freshperson Task Force, confirmed Cooper's impression. "One of the things that surfaced from the questionnaire was that people in all male or all female dorms were the most unhappy," Anderson said Thursday...