Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Signs of the hard times are inescapable. A movie house proclaims cheaper admissions for holders of unemployment-compensation cards. Another recently started staying open all night, reviving the Depression custom of letting movie houses serve as places for shelter and a nap. Groceries advertise another depression standby: day-old bread...
¶ "The temper of the public as a whole is not that of a nation sliding into another depression." One-fourth of the families interviewed said they were "better off" than a year ago, one-half felt they were "about the same," and only one-fourth considered themselves "worse off...
In 1933 Soultana, by now 35, at last bowed to her family's argument that she would never see Athanassios again, and gave in to the demands that she marry one Christos Savides. As the Depression years and World War II passed, Athanassios Konstantinides (his name changed to Tom...
To the tune of I Know That You Know, a 45-voice chorus roared out the "Buy" song 1,000 times over radio and TV in recession-racked Detroit (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) in the past fortnight. Following through, the city's radio stations contributed 10,000 ten-second spots...
Boom Mentality. Novelist Wilson is slick, readable and craftsmanlike. He has again chosen a highly American theme: the intensive pursuit of happiness. But he has recorded his findings without giving himself the satirical elbow room to comment on them. Author Wilson has chided gloomy fellow novelists who write "as if...