Word: copybook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Maynard Keynes pronounced, in copybook style: "The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift but Profit." He might also have pointed out that profits revolve in a self-regenerating cycle, providing the impetus for new and expanded ventures, which in turn crank out more profits. When earnings are high, employers can afford to be generous with pay raises. Profits are also the major force that sends the stock market up-or, in their absence, down. And the market's performance has much to do with the hopes and disappointments of the 26 million Americans who own stock...
...occupied after his gall-bladder surgery 57 weeks earlier, hung paintings of his birthplace, boyhood home and ranch, along with framed quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Harold Macmillan and the Roman consul Paulus, all upholding the axiom-one that is not writ large in Lyndon Johnson's copybook-that a leader who wastes too much time on his critics has little time left for leadership. Across Wisconsin Avenue, the lights were out and the Venetian blinds lowered to a uniform level in the National Institutes of Health buildings; last year the wasting candlepower and higgledy-piggledy blinds had troubled Johnson...
...London's Houses of Parliament were gutted by fire. Turner, who rarely used more than a pencil to sketch out-of-doors, rushed to the bank of the Thames to brush out nine water-colors of the burning buildings (see opposite). He even blotted his copybook pages against each other in his eagerness to capture that dramatic scene. A romantic's delirium, it was the apocalypse brought to reality-the flames mirrored in the water, the starry skies burning with feverish color...
...whom?" On the other hand, literacy has curious values. A Cameroon mother was satisfied with the copybook her son showed her after school hours each day as proof that he was learning -until told by a neighbor that the page had not changed for three months and the boy was playing hooky. The mother now wants to read...
...money. According to newspaper reports, when Prince Charles ran short last December, he sold his composition book containing four school-assigned essays to a classmate for $4. Gordonstoun's Headmaster Robert Chew says there is "absolutely no truth" to the report. But the classmate did get the copybook and sold it for $20 to a Gordonstoun alumnus who did even better by selling it to an Aberdeen journalist for $280, who then joined forces with a press-agent named Terence Smith...